wonder diet supplement?

[darth vader]

a year or two ago on 'Tomorrow's World' (top programme - what's happened to it?) they featured a yoghurt which was revolutionary as it was not only low fat but had some ingredient in it which tricked the stomach into feeling full thereby acting as a slimming aid - does anyone know what i'm talking about and if so can you give me more details/whether it's available commercially yet?

[xyzzy@bok]

hoodia. is this what you want darth? http://observer.guardian.co.uk/international/story
/0,6903,508162,00.html

[darth vader]

no (but i was very interested to read this article). It was definitely a yoghurt - i'm not sure if benecol had something to do with it (though i thought that was all about lowering cholesterol no?) - and it was like an ordinary bio yoghurt except it had some ingredient which seemed to supress appetite - people who ate it BEFORE a meal didn't feel like eating the meal, in effect it replaced a meal. PS hello folks i've not been around recently - nothing to do with me throwing my dolly out of the pram with the editor a while back - simply i am too busy work-wise and cannot respond to others' questions any more (though i still have questions to ask on occasion!) hope everyone's ok and sft42 i hope you're keeping up the good work. MTFBWY Darth

[Hippy]

Darth, I remember this too. It was a slushy drink and it contained stuff that reacted to the acid in the tum and made inert fluffy stuff like cotton wool to fool you into thinking that you'd had lots to eat and so to stop. However, I can't recall a brand name (I doubt if the BEEB told us) and it was one of those ".. on supermarket shelves shortly .." type articles.

As for the demise of TW then the BBC site http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/tw/ says it all, really. Raymond Baxter, WWII fighter pilot who hosted the show from its start in 1965 for 13 years was unceremoniously dumped by the BBC because they though that his engaging and authoritative style was too pompous for the "soar-away-super-seventies" generation. The programme suffered from constant meddling and in the end was far distant from its roots and was a banal showcase for BBC in house visual designers and set dressers. Its science base had been lost along the way as the BBC felt that the population were too stupid to understand complicated "how stuff works" ideas and the nanny mandarins found even more ways to squeeze snippets, trails, and snatches of its brain curdling East Enders into the schedules.