Killing is the only way to measure weight loss
I want to warn all weight watchers. The Japanese have just published a scientific report in Polar Biology - another of those must-read journals. OK, so when did you last see a minke whale on your bathroom weighing scales? He’s got a point.
So if you’re holidaying in the polar regions this Fall and see a Japanese researcher coming towards you with one of those big samurai swords, you may decide that you don’t want to be a part of the research. Except that he’s talking about Antarctic minke whales. It’s hard to get a whale to stay still long enough to get an accurate reading. And then there are those caliper things, the “fat pinchers”. Participants lose an average 10% of their body weight and an average 3 inches (8 cm) from their waists. Where would you get pinchers big enough? Seems hard to have to kill them to find out whether their diets are working. How would you like it in a clinical trial? Take these Acomplia tablets for six months and then we’ll kill you to find out how much adipose weight you’ve lost.
Can’t they just guess? Actually, when it comes to human clinical trials, they use advanced science like tape measures for waists. Acomplia has done well. Maybe the minke whales are buying Acomplia online. Let’s not kill them to find out.