“It might be safer than a heart attack, stroke, type 2 diabetes.”

It’s not just that it encourages an unhealthy attitude towards food. The complications from this device seem just as or even more physically damaging and dangerous than throwing up: The AspireAssist requires constant maintenance and carries the risk of infection, bleeding, fistulas, and death.

Binging and purging is not a life choice, it’s objectively a bad practice. This is just medical device assisted binging and purging.

“As long as it’s reasonably safe”

Maybe the BulimiBuddy would have sold better.

Because it isn’t reasonably safe. It encourages binging and purging as a weight loss solution.

It’s just purging without the tooth decay. I don’t see why they would ever approve this.