Wednesday, August 02, 2006
An anti-obesity vaccine?
This is the height of American laziness. We've got pharmaceutical scientists researching a way to “immunize” people against weight gain. You see, when the politically correct crowd refers to obesity as a disease, you start getting research to cure it. Jesus. Imagine that: rather than eating properly, and being active, you can just get your shot and keep eating like a pig.
The scientists have isolated a chemical called ghrelin, which regulates appetite and energy metabolism. And now, they have engineered a way to trick the immune system into attacking ghrelin, thus preventing it from causing your body to store energy in fat cells.
Mice injected with the vaccine ate just as much as untreated mice but had about a 20 or 30 percent reduction in weight gain. However, the mice were fed low-fat, low-energy diets. It's not certain that a ghrelin vaccine would be effective against the burger-rich, high-fat diet that many Americans eat, the researchers noted.
Notice the disclaimer given there. It is widely accepted that people are obese because of their diet. Obesity is not a disease. Is it really smart to treat it like one? Once you've tricked your immune system into thinking ghrelin is a foreign body, will it stop when you stop using the vaccine? Or will anyone even bother to stop?
The scientists have isolated a chemical called ghrelin, which regulates appetite and energy metabolism. And now, they have engineered a way to trick the immune system into attacking ghrelin, thus preventing it from causing your body to store energy in fat cells.
Mice injected with the vaccine ate just as much as untreated mice but had about a 20 or 30 percent reduction in weight gain. However, the mice were fed low-fat, low-energy diets. It's not certain that a ghrelin vaccine would be effective against the burger-rich, high-fat diet that many Americans eat, the researchers noted.
Notice the disclaimer given there. It is widely accepted that people are obese because of their diet. Obesity is not a disease. Is it really smart to treat it like one? Once you've tricked your immune system into thinking ghrelin is a foreign body, will it stop when you stop using the vaccine? Or will anyone even bother to stop?
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