We have millions of hungry people on this planet.  Erosion, soil depletion and climate change can reduce the amount of food we can produce for our 6+ billion people.  A pill that could help people lose interest in food once one has eaten sufficient calories to maintain a helathy weight would seem to be a better idea to strive for.

While it “may” be true that some people become obese from overindulgence new research condradicts that claim, at least in some people.  A few weeks ago I caught a documentary on PBS entitled “Fat, What They Don’t Tell You.”  In a nutshell, the program claims that finding the cure for obesity will be varied.  In other words, obesity can be caused by several factors.  They have now proven that bariatric surgery works, not because the stomach size is reduced, but because it interrupts certain nerves and signals to the brain which control appetite.

  To accuse ALL obese people of laziness and overindulgence is cruel.  This kind of attack on a “group” without provocation is unjustified.  We don’t know enough about what causes obesity to arrive at such a harsh conclusion.  What of the people who eat like pigs and stay skinny as a rail!  You must have encountered them in your life, so why not people who really don’t eat like a pig and get fat.  If it takes losing a few mice to save a human being, so be it!

I’m not a fan of mice I’ll admit, I see one and out comes the trap baited with peanut butter.  Works everytime!

John,

>Whether its vivisection, war or abortion,
much of the human race proves itself utterly unworthy of its creation. We’re told that in the next world the last shall be first. I suspect there will be a special place there with Jesus - who loves them - for animals abused in this way.>

That’s right, and animals are more connected to God than most humans are. It is amazing that we can do what we do to one another, to the animals, and the earth and yet we are still loved by God and provided for by the very earth that we destroy. Although, that is probably going to end soon -by our own doing.

Josh writes:

>Get a life and go live in a sewer if you like rats and mice more than your fellow human.>

This comment is exactly why I appreciate the animals more than human beings.

Dich Cheney really needs these pills as well as mice.

Different kinds of medical research seem to have different levels of validity. Researching drugs that allow overweight people to not exercise or eat properly does not seem totally worthwhile, but does have usefulness.

Other recent medical research that is more stunning and perhaps more legitimate is looked at in:

“U.S. defense research agency sponsors ‘mind-blowing’ studies to regrow human limbs” (AmericanChronicle.com)

http://www.americanchronicle.com/articles/viewArticle.asp?articleID=14652

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“New diabetes medicine from Gila monster saliva causes excitement” (AmericanChronicle.com)

http://www.americanchronicle.com/articles/viewArticle.asp?articleID=14001

“Researchers” continue to torture and deform animals so that humans can eat like pigs, eat things that are killing them, and then can sit around in front of the TV all day.

Humans are becoming animals and animals are becoming humans (chimeras).