Laugh your ass off...If you dare

Pharmacies are reporting monster sales of Alli (pronounced Ally), which is a nonprescription weight loss product of GlaxoSmithKline. Alli's active ingredient is oristat, a fat blocker. Used correctly it will block one-third of the fat you ingest. For example, a half-cup serving of Haagen-Daz ice cream has about 19 grams of fat. Alli, taken with meals, would prevent the body from absorbing about half of that.

Here's the DOWNSIDE:
(You can find this on their website, myalli.com.) The fat that is blocked can come out of your body in...ahh....ummm, shall we say, embarrassing ways. Alli can cause gas with oily discharge as well as frequent or loose stools. The website goes on to say: "It is probably a smart idea to wear dark pants and bring a change of clothes to work if you use Alli." HOLY CRAP!!!
To avoid the side effects, (get this), Glaxo suggests limiting fat intake to 15 grams a meal. Maybe I'm missing something here, but wouldn't you be inclined to lose weight if you limited your fat intake to 15 grams a meal without taking Alli??

It seems to me that this whole mentality of expecting a pill to help decidedly fat Americans slim down is more than a little...What's the word?...Oh yeah, NUTS!

How about just watching what goes in your pie-hole?
Or, if you just can't help it, there are a lot worse nicknames than FATS. In fact, some of our greatest Americans have been called Fats.







Jackie Gleason as Minnesota Fats


The movie "The Hustler" just wouldn't have been the same if Gleason had been called Minnesota Pantload.

I'm saving that moniker for this guy.







"Minnesota Pantload"