'Beer Belly' Enzyme Discovered In Time For Xmas

dbolger writes: "azcentral.com has this article about how scientists in Boston have found the enzyme that causes fat cells to cluster around the stomach. The hope is that this discovery will eventually lead to a "cure" for the male beer belly. Good news for those "activity challenged" geeks among us, especially at this time of year :)"

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Exercise

[Karma 50]

Okay, so abdominal fat is worse than other sorts; but inhibiting this enzyme still means the fat is going to end up somewhere else.

The real cure for beer-bellies is proper diet and exercise.

Drugs like the one proposed just encourage laziness, but laziness is the primary problem.

Re:Exercise

[naig]

When we are talking about beer-bellies, I think the proper way
to get rid of them is to consume less beer. Exercise, of course,
also helps.

The real question, though, is how to succeed in that..

Get off the blaming

[capedgirardeau]

Ok, ok I know its late and these non front pagers are hardly read, but I have to say:

Stop saying all people with weight problems are like that because they eat like pigs.

I would hope that in the 21st century some of the information about biology and metabolism might have leaked into your tiny minds.

Here's the short version:

People are different, some are tall some are short, some have big feet and some don't. Some have body odor and some have halitosis. Some like the same sex and some don't.

And some *gasp* metabolize food at a different rate, pace, level or in a non standard way! Just as a diabetic about metabolism and body chemistry.

So please learn a little something before you blame them for their wieght problems, many do everything they can to change they way they look, but it requires they change the way they metabolize food and store fat.

Its like blaming bald people for not growing hair, geeze, just grow some f***ing hair you lazy sloths.

Re:Excercise myth

[Bullschmidt]

Wow.. thats completely false. When you exercise for an hour, you can burn on the order or 600-700 Calories (yes, with a capital C, and yes, there is a difference). Given the average person burns about 2500 a day, this is in fact very significant. Plus, exercising raises your metabolism for nearly an hour afterwards, so you continues to burn calories. Please do a little research. Of course exercise won't cure over eating - if you eat those extra 600 Calories, you're not going to lose weight. I speak from MUCH experience as a lightweight athelete (no, not a starving wrestler), who had to monitor his weight carefully.