She just wants to be healthy. That's why she turned to the feeding tube diet.

It's likely that you've seen someone with a feeding tube at one time or another.

The nasogastric feeding tube was created to deliver nutrition to sick and hospitalized people so they wouldn't starve.

For 22-year-old Gabriella Calabresi, it served a totally different purpose.

She is a patient at a Miami clinic and is using an "NG" tube with the hope of losing weight.

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