The FDA said patients will require “frequent monitoring” to shorten the implanted tube as they lose weight and stomach girth. “This safety feature helps ensure patients use the device properly during therapy,” the FDA says. “But it doesn’t work that way.”People can only drain 30 per cent of the calories they eat, she said. In Canada, about one in four adults, or about six million people, said they were obese in 2014. American health regulators have approved a novel weight-loss device critics have likened to engineered bulimia — a surgically placed tube that allows users to drain or “aspirate” 30 per cent of the calories they eat from their stomachs.

Source: National Post June 15, 2016 15:56 UTC