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MIT Researchers Discover "Metabolic Master Switch" To Control Obesity
New submitter ahbond writes: The meme of the chubby nerd alone in the basement may be a thing of the past. Well, at least the chubby part, if recent work at MIT pans out and we're able to use a biological "master switch" to "dial-in" a persons metabolic rate. “Obesity has traditionally been seen as the result of an imbalance between the amount of food we eat and how much we exercise, but this view ignores the contribution of genetics to each individual’s metabolism,” said senior author Manolis Kellis, a professor of computer science and a member of MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory and of the Broad Institute.
Don't get excited. They've "discovered" stuff like this many times and there is still not pill or shot.
Eat Less.
When Fascism comes to America, it will call itself Anti-Fascism, and tell you to give up your guns.
It's still great news for all the people who are hungry for a weight loss solution that allows them to stuff their faces.
Don't waste your vote! Vote for whoever you want, unless you live in a swing state it won't matter anyways
If 98% of obese people can't "follow the proper regimen". The thin people do. That's why they're thin.
get the poop transplant from the really fat dudes
All the shit transplants in the world won't change the fact that I burn more calories than I eat.
It is still a proper regimen, but the fat lazy bastards dont follow it correctly or at all but that doesnt invalidate the regimen, it is still correct.
The most important thing is that there is no universal "proper" regimen and they have to be adjusted to the individual, biological, social and economic.
Well if you do alot of exercise you will stay your weight or go up, because, you know what?, muscles weight more than fat * gasp *
No, didn't you hear? Calories in / calories out is bullshit. Magical gut bacteria and fast and slow metabolisms and starvation mode and MUH GENETICS and fucking photosynthesis are all able to create energy out of nothing. That's why us fatties can't lose weight.
"It should be plain to anyone who's met more than a couple of people that people can differ in body shape and muscle mass even with basically the same diet and training."
This is 100% bullshit and anyone with even a high school level of understanding of physics knows this.
People fucking lie about how much they eat or they do not understand how much they actually eat.
"I have no idea why some people have become so eager to deny that, but it doesn't seem to stem from a deep seated belief in equality."
It's because it's idiot retarded bullshit that is in direct conflict with the basic laws of physics which govern all interactions in this universe you moronic fucking dolt.