[ WP ] The world 's weight is set . If someone loses a pound , someone else gains it .

`` It's not entirely unethical Mrs. Obama,'' the chief scientist said as they walked down a cold bland corridor of the CDC. 
 
 `` Well ethics are swayable, if it achieves enough happiness for the whole...'' Michelle brushed her skirt straight and let the silence fill in the blanks for her. 
 
 `` I wholeheartedly agree,'' Mr. Neit typed in an eight digit code and bent down to match his retina to the scanner. A bank vault like door slid open vertically followed by another gate sliding open horizontally; Mrs. Obama followed him. `` Now this is where we keep the bioweapons in case we ever needed to synthesize a cure-'' 
 
 `` Or if Barack hits the green button, or yellow for that matter. I swear that man's job is all about buttons just on an endless switchboard.'' 
 
 `` Yes, we are also prepared to... defend ourselves if necassary but it wo n't be in the near future. At least not with these fellas. We can make your policies look better and better- you could lead the world with a weightloss initiative and it would be nothing but simple arithmetic to discover the answer to the average American's problems with their belly,'' Mr. Niet said. Green human sized test tubes lined the walls and just beyond the scientist's head was a much girthier tube. Michelle could n't make out what was in it with him in the way. 
 
 `` Is that an American Mr.Niet?!'' Michelle questioned as they stood at their destination. The girthy tube was at least four feet wide and a very large man floated with a tube running up his nose. He looked like he could easily best any of the cast of `` My 600 lb Life''. 
 
 `` It is. He's also the answer to our problems- well the proof that we can easily have the answer.'' 
 
 `` Explain it. Now,'' Michelle barked, her hands held the edge of a console in front of the tube as she peered into his third eye, the protruding belly button. 
 
 `` We've discovered that human weight is just like mass in the universe only confined to the planet and perfectly allocated across small geographic areas.'' 
 
 `` Do better than that or Barack will press the green button on this place.'' 
 
 `` Well, he's the proof that in any given area only a total amount of weight can be had- he is our depository for extra pounds in the CDC. Every worker here as shed three pounds not through exercise but just by feeding him- stuffing him with burgers and beers and sometimes IVs of pure fat- well strawberry milkshakes but its the same thing. Whenever he is fed enough to physically increase in weight from one person, that person drops the exact same amount of weight,'' Mr.Niet; s voice became higher as his excitement grew. 
 
 `` That could be a coincidence.'' 
 
 `` We tested for that,'' Mr.Niet pulled out a picture of a doctor Michelle did n't recognize- the man was at least one hundred pounds overweight. Mr.Niet pulled a video up on the console which had this doctor being weighed on a scale in the office and a depiction of his weight on one side of the screen and the act of him pressing a button over the course of three weeks. The doctor did n't know why he was pressing the button or that it was even a weight based experiment only that he needed to stand in a spot after pressing the button- according to the summary slide at the end. 
 
 `` So we could have someone press a button a few times and lose weight just to give it someone else?'' 
 
 `` Yes and it appears its a ratio at first where you lose a pound and they gain a quarter pound but this scales up quite quickly. This is why we want to study individuals with eating disorders- we could both cure them and stop obesity.'' Michelle stood up straight and paused; her knuckles lined up against her chin as she thought. This could be it, they were right. Half of all Americans could be healthier. 
 
 `` Fine. Continue- but I was never here. Send the buttons to some side part of my Healthy Wayz campaign in California- we'll test it there. I'll have Barack draw up a few....permission slips to obtain donors.'' Michelle left without Mr.Niet's escort.
