Receive an email a day with our articles:How do you say in New Zealand to kill flies with cannons?Introducing DentalSlim Diet Control, the latest innovation developed by researchers at the University of Otago and the UK.It's what you see: an intraoral device that a dental professional places on the subject's upper and lower back teeth so that the subject cannot eat solids.The device has custom locks that only allow the user to open their mouth a maximum of two millimeters, restricting the individual to a liquid diet, but it allows freedom of expression and does not restrict breathing.Otago and UK researchers have developed a world-first weight-loss device to help fight the global obesity epidemic: an intra-oral device that restricts a person to a liquid diet.Read more: https://t.co/eLhXwipiqs pic.twitter.com/Of6v3uvVbXWorld obesity ended.For those of Otago, as for so many other public health experts, obesity is the epidemic of the 21st century, the disease that will afflict more than 50% of the planet's adult population in 2030 and the long list of ailments and reduced associated quality of life that we already know.The DentalSlim, which had not occurred to anyone before them, is the panacea, "a non-invasive, reversible, economical and attractive alternative to surgical procedures".It has no negative effects (it has an emergency mechanism in case you need to break it -imagine you need to throw up, what do you do?-) and, in fact, according to their calculations, it has psychological advantages: it is more the shame they feel being fat than the shame they feel when they are fat. it could cause having to reveal that you have put on a muzzle that implies that you do not have self-control.Beware, a pilot test was carried out: the irons were placed on them and they were given a "liquid diet of the commercial brand Fortisip Drinks", 1,200 kcal a day.The participants lost 6.4 kilos in two weeks!Better results than with the artichoke diet.Now, there are some “buts”.The phenomenal sample of participants was seven people, and all indicated frequent problems with pronouncing words.They only felt tense or embarrassed "occasionally."They all reported at some point that life in general was "less satisfying," but they were pleased with their brutal weight loss.People have been left speechless.Despite the feeling of euphoria of the developers, citizens have not taken their revolutionary patent as they expected.Seeing the reception, and although in the official statement DentalSlim is sold as a magical solution to all types of obese, then they have been nuanced and have focused on their Twitter account as a temporary aid only for people who need to undergo a surgery and his weight is still too high to enter the operating room.If you're fat, you don't get a visa.If it is known that the New Zealand citizenship system is very restrictive, it is not so much this clause by which immigrants, even if they meet the rest of the requirements, must undergo a state medical evaluation and, if it determines that your body mass index places you at "severe risk", your application is denied.endangering the future of his family.Torture rack: the truth is that Otago's invention doesn't seem from this century, it reminds us more of the quack solutions of past eras, like when not long ago a depressive was cured with electroshock.In the 1980s, the temporary closure of dental appliances was tested in certain American clinics, stages from 9 to 17 months, so that the subject lost weight, with results that revealed that the majority of users suffered the regrowth effect once they freed his jaw, so it was considered "a safe but ineffective means of weight control".As our fellow nutrition expert Ladyfitness explained, if you put a body that was previously accustomed to eating much more into temporary eating shock, the metabolism slows down sharply and it's more difficult to continue losing weight.The optimal thing is to make a progressive change of habits.Some researchers have found the "solution" to being overweight: lock the teeth of the obeseSee more articlesSee more videos