For decades, scientists, doctors and public health officials fought to resolve the obesity crisis. Now, the researchers have won an IG Nobel Prize for a new radical approach: to reduce the caloric contribution of people by nourishing them from the teflon.
The left field proposal was inspired by zero calories drinks and envisaged food manufacturers mixing polytetrafluoroethylene powder (PTFE) in their products in the hope that it would assassinate people’s hunger before sliding quietly.
The team is one of the 10 to be recognized at the IG Nobel Awards of this year, which celebrate the research that first makes people laugh, then make them think. They should not be confused with the rather prestigious and lucrative Nobel Prizes that will be distributed in Scandinavia next month.
The latest winning harvest received their awards by Nobel winners in good faith and showered Thursday during a ceremony at the University of Boston.
Researchers honored at night discovered that alcohol at least has reinforced people’s foreign language skills; This cow disguised as zebras underwent fewer insect bites, and that people became more narcissistic after being informed that they were smarter than most, even when they were not. Another price went to a tedious doctor who measured the growth of his nails for 35 years.
“I feel honored,” said Dr. Rotem Naftalovich at Rutgers University in New Jersey, whose work on the Teflon regime has won the chemistry prize. After discussing the idea of a zero calorie filling with their brother David, the couple struck Teflon as a favorite substance.
By asserting their arguments in obesity technology, the researchers explained how PTFE could invent a quarter of our food in volume. But while Naftalovich manufactured – and ate – chocolate bars containing teflon, the United States Food and Drug Administration was cool on the idea.
“I don’t think they wanted to see him again because it was such a wobbly idea,” said Natfalovich.
The peace prize went to a German, Dutch and British team who showed that a vodka plan improves people’s foreign language skills. “A little sip seemed to strengthen confidence without collapsing,” said Dr. Fritz Renner, a psychologist at the University of Freiburg.
But the improvement was not huge. “It is not as if people had been transformed into perfect Dutch speakers after a single glass,” added Professor Matt Field, psychologist at the University of Sheffield who worked on the study.
If communication with foreigners has improved with alcohol, the flight has not done so. The aviation price went to researchers who applied Egyptian bats with ethanol. Bats have become slow and their vaculumed echolocation, just as speech becomes intoxicated. The bats that have fought on fermented fruits can be “at higher risk of collision with obstacles,” concluded the team.
Food was strongly appeared in prices 2025. An exploration of the impact of food on the flavor of breast milk won the pediatric prize for showing that babies have been breastfed longer after their mothers ate garlic. A largely Italian team won the prize for physics for elucidated a phase transition into the Pasta Pasta dish that leads to an unpleasant agglomeration. Another group discovered that, even when it was given to it, the rainbow lizards of Togo had an extreme predeference for the “four cheeses” pizzas, which earned them the price of nutrition.
Elsewhere, Indian researchers won the engineering price for the construction of a shoe support which neutralized the smell of smelly coaches. The rack, more than one cardboard box, contained a UV lamp that killed the bacteria incriminated in a few minutes. He also burned the coaches. The Prix de la Psychologie went to work who revealed that the people who had been informed that they had information higher than the average believed it and were subject to boast.
Dr. Tomoki Kojima to the national organization of research on agriculture and food research in Japan won the Biology Prize. His team has shown that cows suffered less flies when they are painted with black stripes. “I couldn’t believe it,” he said. “I thought I dreamed.”
The prize for literature has visited the University of Iowa University posthumously. In a succession of papers, he documented the growth rate of his nails and nails over 35 years. His son Bennett said the whole family had been trained in the effort.
“He was interested in the world and we are part of it,” his son Bennett told Guardian. “He would have loved this and used it as an event to write a perfect acceptance speech. He would say: “Finally, recognition! »»
