A Shot to Melt Fat? Doctors Concerned

Another cure for the stupid fat people.

Except for the fact it does not cure fat and only proves stupid.

"What if there was a way to get rid of that unwanted fat without going under the knife? How convenient it would be to stop by a clinic during your lunch hour, get a few injections and dissolve away your trouble spots of extra fat.

That's what appealed to 45-year-old Sheila Yee of Riverbank, Calif. A third-degree black belt and martial arts instructor, she works out six days a week and is about as fit as a woman can be.

But like a lot of women her age, she couldn't seem to get rid of the pouch around her belly. 'Who wants to take martial arts from someone who doesn't look like they're in shape?"'she said.

Yee was intrigued by the local advertisements for a new procedure commonly called by the trade name Lipodissolve, which claims to melt away fat with a simple injection of drugs. To avoid surgical liposuction, Yee thought she'd found the answer.

'I just knew that there was no cutting, there was no blood. There's no stitches,' Yee said...

Yee said she also found a nodule in her stomach the size of a tennis ball and went back to the spa. She said she was stunned by the nurse's reaction.

'She looks at it and she's telling me 'oh my goodness that is so wonderful. All your fat cells have all congregated into one area. If all of our patients were like this, we'd be out of business because you know that fat's just going. You're the perfect person for this.''

Disaster struck a few days later when that mass in her stomach nearly doubled to the size of a grapefruit. She had a life-threatening staph infection that required emergency surgery to remove a mass of dead tissue. Sheila says she could have died. 'I contemplated going the next day. I might have died the next day. I might not have lived,' she said. 'They don't realize how serious this is and what they're doing to people. It's dangerous.'...

But Yee said she never expected her stomach would look like this. 'Now I'm lopsided. I'm disfigured. There's dimpling on one side, lopsided. It's a mess.'"

Yep, inject your way to slim.

Morons.