Professor discovers ‘jaw clamp’ for losing weight quickly

‘If only I could have my jaws sewn shut,’ my mother would always sigh whenever yet another sherry, bread, or blueberry diet had failed. Well, Mum, you can, because this professor uses two powerful magnets to clamp your molars together, meaning his ‘patients’ have to eat liquid food. The kilos fly off!

A small magnet halfway along your cheek, attached to a molar in your upper jaw, and another magnet on the opposing molar in your lower jaw. Voilà, a maximum of two millimetres of space, so only food through a straw can get in. That saves kilos, discovered Professor Paul Brunton from New Zealand: patients who walked around with the clamp for two weeks lost an average of just over six kilos.

Low-calorie diet

The professor calls his invention an ‘effective, safe and affordable tool’ for people who want to lose weight. No discipline? Then the professor will help you: ‘This helps (…) them learn new habits, allowing them to follow a low-calorie diet for a certain period of time.’

Disabling the magnet

The research team is calming the outrage on social media: according to them, the invention is not a diet replacement, but is intended for people who need to lose weight quickly before surgery. And it is completely safe, because the magnet can be disabled with a special device. Quite handy if you need to go to the dentist, and just imagine if you had to vomit?

Verdict

So yes, the kilos fly off if you cannot open your mouth to put chocolate or a salad in it, but it really is not pleasant. The people who tried out the jaw clamp complained that, for example, they could no longer pronounce certain words. That does not stop Professor Brunton: billions of people are overweight, even obese. ‘It is estimated that by 2030, approximately 57 percent of the world’s adult population will be overweight or obese.’ That leads to deaths, depression and even discrimination, says Brunton, and this research team could put an end to that with its findings.

Mini-depression

Compared with major surgery such as a gastric reduction, such a jaw clamp is an accessible and relatively harmless solution, argues Professor Brunton. It seems to me like using a cannon to kill a mosquito, and even the thought of such a jaw clamp already gives me a little bout of depression, but the professor probably knows best.

I suddenly feel like having the four-cheese toasted sandwich with black truffle from the Truffle Boutique; does anyone else get that when they think about the jaw clamp? And could scientific research into that be conducted sometime?

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Source: AD.nl