
“Doctors have a new weapon in the battle to beat obesity – a talking plate that tells people not to bolt their food. The Mandometer monitors the amount of food leaving the plate and tells users who gobble: ‘Please eat more slowly.’ Now the £1,500 Swedish device is to be used in an NHS initiative to help hundreds of obese families lose weight. Professor Julian Hamilton-Shield, who is leading the initiative, said obese children and adolescents using the Mandometer ate from 12 to 15 per cent less per meal at the end of the 12-month trial. Six months after they stopped using the device they still ate less and continued to lose weight.”
Related posts:
Woman scams metal buyers out of thousands with fake silver bars
Egypt court orders Hosni Mubarak freed
Savers boosting bitcoin demand in China, exchange says
Guardian teams up with New York Times over Snowden documents
New German hate speech law tested as Twitter blocks satire account
Margin Debt Hits Record High
With the end of Fed's QE in sight, U.S. public says 'Huh?'
Rothschild: 'China's rich always ask how to keep wealth in the family'
World War II bomb found near Berlin’s main train station
Federal Reserve expected to stay the course on near-zero interest rate
FBI Pursuing Real-Time Gmail Spying Powers as “Top Priority” for 2013
Iraq says 3,000 inmates freed amid demonstrations
NSA program reaches ‘into the past’ to retrieve, replay phone calls
Pat Buchanan: Putin 'Made A Better Case' Than Obama On Syria
Rare trees turned into firewood as Syrian civilians struggle for warmth