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    No More Obesity
    No More Obesity
    No More Obesity
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    No More Obesity

    By James Dolittle

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    This is the story of Tom Baxter a brilliant research scientist working in the nanotechnology industry,
    When Tom realises that all his family are becoming overweight he puts his mind to solving the problem by using the technology that he works with and after much research he finds a formula that could solve the worldwide problem of obesity.
    Feeling nervous but confident he tries the encapsulated Nano particles on himself for a short while and then he recruits the rest of his family and a few of their friends.
    Sharing the good news with a helpful fellow scientist called Nick turns out to be a disaster, as the poor man’s life was in turmoil, his debts, gambling and drug taking were rapidly taking over his life, thinking that he could use the discovery of Tom’s capsules to his own advantage he quietly arranged to supply the local drug barons with thousands of the magic capsules for sale to addicts as drug enhancers.
    Over the next few weeks Tom’s family, his personal lab rats, were suffering no ill effects and they were all steadily losing weight, Tom’s wife Gill was careful to serve the family the same diet as they had consumed previously, and for Susan’s 15th birthday barbecue she provided the usual superb array of food.
    Susan was the most thoughtful of Tom’s four children, she was concerned with the climate change, the starvation in the world, and lots of other things that most teenagers dismiss as not their problem.
    Then another mystery develops as Nick disappears and Tom has to confess to his bosses that he has been carrying out unofficial experiments, thinking that his world is coming to an end Tom attends a board meeting to hear his fate, but all turns out well the other board members checking Tom’s results get so carried away with the idea of making millions from Tom’s idea that they promote him to a place at the boardroom table.
    One of Tom’s co-conspirators who is heavily in debt comes to the conclusion that blackmailing Tom to keep the secret is the way out of her financial problems but Mavis could be wrong.
    Tom’s family has to endure the company medicals that are looking for ill effects from the medicines they have been consuming now for some weeks.
    The drug barons have located Nick Berisford and arranged to do a deal, he can only do this if he can get back into his old employment, with Tom’s elevated position in the company he manages to get Nick reinstated and the deal goes through.
    While Nick has been away Tom has been working on the Berisford family and has cured young Nancy’s anorexia and her younger brother Bert’s addiction to marijuana.
    The Baxter’s celebrate by holding a giant barbecue and Susan invites her new boyfriend called Henry Bates who turns out to be the son of the local drug Baron an altogether bad character who steals Tom’s eldest son’s girlfriend, Claire, then he drugs and rapes her.
    Susan starts a club in school with the aim of doing something about climate change and generally improving the world for children in the future.
    The drug Baron is killed by a doorstep shooting as he answers the door.
    With massive sales of the product, the prospect of worldwide obesity being under control, the blackmailer arrested and the killer awaiting trial I think we can say all is well that ends well.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherJames Dolittle
    Release dateSep 23, 2016
    ISBN9781370160549
    No More Obesity
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    James Dolittle

    Profile details I am a retired English gentleman living in the South West of England I have spent 17 years travelling all over the world I spent 30 years as a naturist visiting many beaches in many countries I now have 19 grandchildren and my family has spread to Thailand, New Zealand and Australia I am deeply concerned about the effects of climate change, I have a website called www.buzcall.com which is updated daily, it gives free advice and warnings on everything from jellyfish to earthquakes I am an author and eight of my books are published on Amazon My latest works are The Magic Formula or No more Obesity, My Bad Hospital Broadcasts, Erotic Adventures of a G spot seeker and My Nine Lives and Eight Deaths I am also an amateur inventor and have applied for several provisional patents I am still fit and mobile and hard at it despite my many years experience

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      No More Obesity - James Dolittle

      The Magic Formula

      By James Dolittle

      Copyright 2016 James Dolittle

      Smashwords Edition

      This eBook is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This eBook may not be re-sold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each recipient. If you’re reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your use only, then please return to your favourite eBook retailer and purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the hard work of this author.

      This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, trademarked products, events, and locations are fictitious or are used fictitiously. Any resemblances to actual events or persons, living or dead, are entirely coincidental.

      Table of Contents

      Chapter 1 Introduction

      Chapter 2 The Baxters

      Chapter 3. Talking Scales

      Chapter 4 The Experiment.

      Chapter 5 The experiment begins

      Chapter 6 . The secret trial

      Chapter 7 The artful dodger

      Chapter 8 The birthday girl

      Chapter 9, The drug pushers

      Chapter 10, Heavy thinking

      Chapter 11, Trouble for Nick

      Chapter 12, Nick’s gone

      Chapter 13 To the gallows.

      Chapter 14 Mavis

      Chapter 15 The medicals

      Chapter 16 Regeneration

      Chapter 17 The return of Nick

      Chapter 18 Nancy

      Chapter 19 high hopes for Charles

      Chapter 20 Wicked Mavis

      Chapter 21 And now Bert

      Chapter 22 Victoria

      Chapter 23 The mega barbeque

      Chapter 24 Susan’s club

      Chapter 25 The Killer

      Chapter 26 It’s in the shops

      Chapter 27 All’s well

      About the author

      Other books by James Dolittle

      The Magic Formula

      a novel by James Dolittle

      Chapter one Introduction

      This novel is about Tom Baxter and why he was nominated for the Nobel Prize last year,

      He certainly deserved it, his discovery of a means of controlling the weight of each person just by taking a simple daily pill that has no discernible side-effects, has got to go down in the annals of history as one of the greatest discoveries in the history of medicine, and is on a par with the discovery of antibiotics and vaccination.

      Just remember this is a work of fiction at this stage but think how many discoveries first mentioned in science fiction are commonplace today.

      Chapter 2 The Baxter’s

      Tom Baxter worked for a huge chemical company, he was a research chemist working in the nanotechnology department; as he had done for the last 12 years, they had had many successes and the list of patents was very impressive. The inventions they had devised was now incorporated in hundreds of foods, chemical and medical processes; the company had made many millions in the past two decades.

      As a senior research chemist Tom was well paid there was no doubt about that, but he was not happy he found the work exciting at times but generally it was tedious and he was always happy at the end of the day when he could go home to his wife and family, as you would expect Tom was well set up with a nice car a beautiful home a loving wife and four beautiful children, Gill and Tom had been married now for 18 years and were devoted to each other; it was an ideal marriage Tom was paid very generously and nobody in the family went short of anything within reason.

      Gill was very involved with the local community whenever she could spare the time from the task of looking after four busy children, not that they were demanding but there was always something that one of them needed, the two boys were into sport and the two girls a multitude of other things with a club for this and a club for that, it was a typical busy family life.

      There was only one fly in the ointment as they say, and that was the fact that everyone in the family was overweight not excessively, so not in the obese range but definitely overweight; it was not so noticeable in the boys because with their sporting activities they were putting on muscle but there was a certain element of excess around the waist lines, Gill as a mum of four and 41 years old was not the Slim and lovely person that she was when they were first married.

      The problem was the Gill was a good cook and she liked cooking and as a result the family meals were usually delicious and plentiful, she didn’t care how much the children ate, subconsciously she thought I don’t want to be the only fat one in the family she would never admit this of course, she was just giving them the nourishment they needed in her eyes, and she could see they were thriving on it, perhaps a little too much.

      Tom was quite active at work spending only half of his day sitting behind his desk and the rest of it out and about in the laboratories supervising his team, but even so he had been quietly worrying about his gradually changing figure, he had watched his BMI creep slowly ever upward and he made excuse to himself it’s because as I get older I’m not as tall as I was but he wasn’t fooling anybody, he knew it, he was getting fat and he was only 45 years old, he wondered how fat he would be in 10 years’ time and he realised that he was going to have to do something about it.

      Over the years he had thought about joining the local gymnasium or even the running club but even in school he had never been any good at running and he put this down to the fact that his legs were too short, in any case he had always been too busy with his technical studies and his obsession for playing games either on the computer or board games with his friends he was very competitive and he always liked to win.

      In the evenings Gill insisted that they all sit around the table and eat their evening meal as a family gathering and they managed to arrange their lives so that this nearly always happened, on this particular evening, they had eaten well and the lively chatter was proceeding whilst they relaxed, Charles the eldest boy had a question for his father;

      What is it that you actually do when you go to work Dad?

      Well I’m sorry Charles but I cannot tell you because it’s all top-secret joked Tom

      Gill and Tom were trying hard not to laugh out loud.

      He won’t tell anybody darling he’ll keep the secret in the family won’t you Charles?

      In any case I’m working with things so small you wouldn’t be able to see them anyway

      But what are you trying to do Charles persisted.

      Tom tried to explain you know what nano particles are, well we are building new nano particles that react differently in the chemical processes

      Thanks said Charles I see it all now, some of it

      Jane the eldest girl piped up I would like to do that when I leave school; it sounds very interesting

      Sounds pretty boring to me said Susan her younger sister.

      Can, I leave the table please asked Alex the overactive 10-year-old youngest son.

      Yes, you can Gill replied dishes to the kitchen please

      Later that evening Tom was deep in thought, the idea had come to him after dinner as he looked around the table at his family and he realised, that every one of them was overweight, they had never restricted the children’s sugar intake but he realised it was too late to worry about that now, he wanted a new and better high-tech solution. He had witnessed the power of nano particles to control chemical processes and he wondered if he could devise a nano particle that would control the digestive system. Without any problems.

      The more Tom thought about it the more excited he got, he realised that human digestive was just another chemical process and a well understood at that, he started to frantically scribble notes as he sat at his desk; his first thought as always when he was analysing a problem was to write down what it was he was trying to achieve, the basic objective was to lose weight whilst keeping the subjects fit and healthy, he knew that the nano carriers were extremely small and will pass through the digestive system with no problem, he could start with some empty carriers as a first test on the system, it came to him in a flash that he was actually thinking of carrying out experiments on his own family, and himself of course.

      He then spent some time thinking of the possible dangers that would be discovered during the testing period, but he was confident he would be in control and supervising every step of the way, but to be on the safe side he would only use the nano carriers on himself; there were plenty of empty nano carriers in the labs, they used them practically every day, they were like the carrier bags of the trade, he made a decision there and then that tomorrow he would doctor his morning coffee with a pinch of nano carriers.

      He knew that doctors were delivering hundreds of different drugs to patients using these nano carriers so he came to the conclusion that there was a zero risk, and he started thinking about the problem of what he was going to load the carriers with to make the subjects safely lose weight, it didn’t need to be too drastic, in fact if it was slow acting it would give him time to study the effects over a reasonable period and how was he going to study the effects, he could hardly treat his family like laboratory animals.

      The solution came to him a little later, one of Charles’s friends had suffered a nasty accident on the football field and was in hospital with a very complicated fracture of his leg, and by sheer chance he was about 10 kg overweight, he was being supervised 24 hours a day and his vital signs recorded regularly, he could make the excuse that he was concerned because he thought his son Charles might have caused the accident, if he could convince the staff at the hospital that this was the case he would be home and dry.

      Tom realised he was gathering possible subjects, or are they victims, but he had absolutely no idea what the treatment was going to be, he knew that he could use the nano particles that were known to be cleared out of the human system in a matter of a few hours, he had some research and studying to do.

      Over the next two weeks he had administered hundreds of nano carriers to many people including family and workmates with no ill effects whatsoever he was not surprised, they were designed to dissolve in the stomach with just a little harmless residue, with the help of the nurse that was monitoring the boy in the hospital who was unsurprisingly putting on a little weight, he had co-opted Gill into his little skulduggery mainly because she had greater access to the children’s food he just told her he was conducting a harmless experiment.

      Chapter 3 Talking scales

      One evening after dinner the children were doing their homework and Susan enquired

      How many pounds in a kilogram dad

      2.2

      I think we should do a little experiment to put this to practical use said Tom

      What did you have in mind? Asked Susan excitedly

      Well I saw some new scales advertised that are clever enough to work out who you are and speak your weight

      What so when you get on they say good morning Susan your weight is 5.3 kg

      Well better than that, you can program them to do all sorts of things and they are guaranteed never to say one at a time please joked Tom

      You will have to get one of those laughed Susan

      And I’ll tell you what said Jane and that is, you can’t always sometimes tell what’s least expected most

      when they finished laughing Gill said

      And where did you get that from young lady

      A boy in the English class Jane replied

      What was more useful to Tom was the fact that the scales also recorded everyone’s weight and this could be downloaded into Tom’s computer, he was intrigued by the possibilities of the numerous uses he could put this to.

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