We all know, or have heard, whether we take it to heart or not, that being overweight can cause problems and subject the body to diseases that are beyond the large look and continual tiredness specifically resulting from being fat. People try all sorts of approaches to reducing the weight such as diet pills, starvation, limiting specific foods, and, perhaps, a revised lifestyle to one more healthy that includes a healthy diet and regular exercise. Many people are not successful for one reason or another. Our busy lives may be one such reason. Healthy diets are tricky to adhere to when working long hours and running hither and yon picking up and dropping off kids.

Hence the convenience of drive through restaurants. For many, however, it becomes a life and death situation. Type 2 diabetes is one example. Many people who have this disease look to gastric bypass surgery and a means to lose weight. A new innovation called the Tantalus System is in the testing phase; it is a device that aims to do the same job as the surgery but much less invasively. The device is an implant that sends electric signals that make the dieter feel they are full. Volunteers lost 11 pounds on average and experienced enough of a decrease in blood sugar to reduce risk of complications by 40 percent. The device will not be available for about five more years.