The sales pitch of every shonky diet tool, from weight-loss tea to diet pills, is that you can change the way you look without changing how you live.
Take the AspireAssist, an American weight-loss device that’s on its way to Australia.
“With the AspireAssist you can eat normal, healthy meals with your friends and family,” says a brightly animated information video about what is essentially a personal stomach pump.
“Afterwards, in the privacy of a restroom, the device lets you remove up to a third of the food you eat through a small tube in your belly.”

Let's look at the sentence again with a few words removed, shall we?
"Afterwards, in the privacy of a restroom, the device lets you remove up to a third of the food you eat through a small tube in your belly."
Geez, that sounds an awful lot like an eating disorder, doesn't it?
Billed by Aspire Bariatrics as an alternative to permanent weight-loss surgery, such as reducing the size of the stomach with a gastric band or by removing a portion of the stomach, the AspireAssist system can be installed via a 15-minute reversible procedure.

Top Comments
A bit like sex and then the morning-after pill?
When you eat, the body assesses the volume etc, and prepares the digestive processes. Take away some of the food material and what are those processes gonna work with? What will they do instead?
Welcome to the world of GERD and other gastric problems
Because just eating less is clearly a concept that is somehow beyond people's grasp..?