03 DON’T EVEN GO THERE JAW-LOCKING DENTAL DEVICE

Proving that not everything with research behind it is a good idea, along comes the DentalSlim Diet Control device. Scientists just created a contraption that uses magnets with locks to keep the wearer’s jaw shut to prevent them from eating solids. They even published a study on it in the British Dental Journal. What do you know, it helped the women in the study lose 5% of their body weight in two weeks. After uproar about it being ‘stigmatising and dehumanising’, as Brooke Bulloch of Food To Fit Nutrition puts it, the authors said it was intended for people with a short-term medical need to lose weight quickly. There are better ways.