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"Fat-Burning Pill" Inches Closer To Reality
Zothecula writes with news that a fat burning pill may be on the horizon. "Researchers at Harvard University say they have identified two chemical compounds that could replace "bad" fat cells in the human body with healthy fat-burning cells, in what may be the first step toward the development of an effective medical treatment – which could even take the form of a pill – to help control weight gain. Not all fat is created equal. While white fat cells store energy as lipids and contribute to obesity, heart disease and type 2 diabetes, the less common brown fat cells pack energy in iron-rich mitochondria, have been shown to lower triglyceride levels and insulin resistance in mice, and appear to be correlated with lower body weight in humans. Brown fat makes up about five percent of the body mass of healthy newborns, helping them keep warm, and is still present in lower quantities in our neck and shoulders as adults, where it helps burn the white fat cells."
why you gotta be racist?
>there is no truer a saying than that of "you are what you eat"
Which is why we should all avoid fruits and nuts. Suckers too. Not to mention vegetables, nobody wants to be a vegetable.
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Careful though. After a few cases of spontaneous human combustion scientists admitted their fat burning pills may still need some adjustment.
Rodents aren't that heavy to start with.
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."