Miracle Diet Pill - with a teeny-tiny side effect

[Pier Angeli]

I know somebody who's on pills which stop her absorbing fat. If she eats too much fat, she throws up and apparently it's uncontrollable vomiting. Not nice.

[PapaZeb]

Originally Posted by poprock

That’s the answer. Set the scientific world to work figuring out a way to collect and turn these “oily stools” to biodiesel. America could become self-sufficient for fuel, remove the childhood obesity problem in one fell swoop, and stop bickering with Middle-eastern states.

Biodiesel tends to be a blend of diesel + bio products.

We're converting our work vehicles to 100% vegetable oil and get donations from local restaurants to power our fleet. I can generally tell when we've gotten a supply off a chinese restaurant as suddenly the work vehicle smells so intensely yummy I'm starving while driving.

I can only sit here and frown at the concept of being powered by pill-popper's stool

[Devastator]

Eek, sounds nasty but I can see why people would still take them.