How can a diet pill make you feel full?
When you were a kid, did you ever throw some pastel-colored pills into the bathtub and watch as they bloomed into dinosaurs and alligators? Those critters actually have something in common with a new diet pill being developed by an Italian research team. Led by Professor Luigi Ambrosio, researchers at the National Research Council’s Institute for Composite and Biomedical Materials in Naples, Italy, have created a diet pill that expands in the patient’s stomach to make him feel full. The pill is about the size of a pea or bean, but when taken with two glasses of water, it swells in your stomach. At maximum capacity, so to speak, the pill holds one thousand times its weight (about a liter of water). In the next section, we’ll look at how the expanding di
