music might make food pass through a person's body faster, thus creating a wild new opportunity to create a skinnyfying new eating utensil from an iPod

pubmed says Both classical music and noise altered the regularity of gastric slow waves. The percentage of normal 2-4 cycles/min (cpm) waves was reduced from 77.9 +/- 4.7% at baseline to 66.9 +/- 5.4% during music

basically your musical eating utensil scans your playlist as a response to the caloric value of the food; maybe it even chipmunks tunes for a few hours if you eat a lot
-- beanangel, Jan 17 2008

Alteration of gastric myoelectrical and autonomic activities with audio stimulation in healthy humans http://www.ncbi.nlm...nel.Pubmed_RVDocSum
[beanangel, Jan 17 2008]

chipmunks the verb http://youtube.com/watch?v=DsSjkfUcJQc
[beanangel, Jan 17 2008]

//music might make food pass through a person's body faster, thus creating a wild new opportunity to create a skinnyfying new eating utensil from an iPod// Yes, but then again it might not.

Treon, why is that 87% of your ideas of the form "There was a paper that said this, so why not do it?". The trick to reading the literature is to realize that even the craziest ideas are sometimes wrong.
-- MaxwellBuchanan, Jan 19 2008


I pity the iFoon.
-- Jinbish, Jan 19 2008


sounds like the next dieting craze. now exactly what type of utensil would the iFoon imitate (i.e., spoon, fork)?
-- fuzzybagel, Jan 19 2008


i'm likely to buy iFoon sporks. +
-- pyggy potamus, Jan 19 2008



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