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Post by Lone Wanderer on May 6, 2018 9:03:27 GMT
Source: Researchers defy biology: Mice remain slim on burger dietOur bodies are extremely efficient at storing fat from food into our fat tissue. In a new study, researchers have managed to completely block the development of obesity. The researchers deleted an enzyme and made it impossible for mice to increase their amount of fat tissue, despite the mice eating an extremely fatty diet. They are hoping the findings will open new avenues for better treatment of obesity. We are our own worst enemy when it comes to developing obesity. The body is naturally geared to assimilate energy from the food we eat and store it as fat until it is needed. This is the result of millions of years of evolution under the pressure of low food availability. But today, where many of us have constant access to high calorie foods, our body's impressive ability to convert food into fat has, ironically, become problematic. Consequently, the number of overweight people worldwide is skyrocketing, leading to large health consequences for both the individual and society. However, as part of a new study, researchers at the University of Copenhagen have now managed to inhibit the body's ability to store fat. They genetically delete the enzyme NAMPT in fat tissue of mice, and this renders the animals completely resistant to becoming overweight or obese, even on a very fatty diet. 'We gave the mice a diet that more or less corresponds to continuously eating burgers and pizza. Still, it was impossible for them to expand their fat tissue. Our ultimate goal is that by understanding these fundamental underpinnings of how we become obese, we can apply our finding to the development of novel treatment strategies for metabolic disease,' says Karen Nørgaard Nielsen, first author on the publication and a Ph.D. student at the Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Basic Metabolic Research.
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Post by Elizabeth on May 6, 2018 9:43:48 GMT
Burgers and pizza doesn't give me any weight either. Pizza keeps me the same...burgers actually makes me lose weight as per experiment. Sucks.
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Post by Lone Wanderer on May 6, 2018 18:01:45 GMT
Burgers and pizza doesn't give me any weight either. Pizza keeps me the same...burgers actually makes me lose weight as per experiment. Sucks. Really? Maybe it's related to your metabolism. Be happy if your weight is normal and eating does not increase your weight.
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Post by Elizabeth on May 6, 2018 20:54:51 GMT
Burgers and pizza doesn't give me any weight either. Pizza keeps me the same...burgers actually makes me lose weight as per experiment. Sucks. Really? Maybe it's related to your metabolism. Be happy if your weight is normal and eating does not increase your weight. I wasn't happy though. The experiment was done to increase weight not lose it!
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Post by Lone Wanderer on May 6, 2018 21:16:01 GMT
Really? Maybe it's related to your metabolism. Be happy if your weight is normal and eating does not increase your weight. I wasn't happy though. The experiment was done to increase weight not lose it! Underweight?
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Post by Deleted on May 11, 2018 18:24:14 GMT
Burgers and pizza doesn't give me any weight either. Pizza keeps me the same...burgers actually makes me lose weight as per experiment. Sucks. I have been eating only pizzas, chips, tomato juice and dozens of hamburgers at local fast food cafe for ten years from 20 to my 30's. I know few guys who did the same. What is result? - you may ask. I'll give you an answer: none from us got more weight (we didn't get fatter)... BUT after 30's we started to get weight really fast... Human bodies are polygons, but the polygon is getting used to what we're experimenting on it. I mean - the results need time to be shown. I don't know lots of experiments on mice, but mice don't have any possibility to get bigger as Schwarzenegger. Mice stay mice; people can change their shapes. So, I would give you an advice - be careful with fast-food. Maybe fast-food meals have no causes on human's shape, but... be careful.
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Post by Elizabeth on May 11, 2018 20:04:19 GMT
Burgers and pizza doesn't give me any weight either. Pizza keeps me the same...burgers actually makes me lose weight as per experiment. Sucks. I have been eating only pizzas, chips, tomato juice and dozens of hamburgers at local fast food cafe for ten years from 20 to my 30's. I know few guys who did the same. What is result? - you may ask. I'll give you an answer: none from us got more weight (we didn't get fatter)... BUT after 30's we started to get weight really fast... Human bodies are polygons, but the polygon is getting used to what we're experimenting on it. I mean - the results need time to be shown. I don't know lots of experiments on mice, but mice don't have any possibility to get bigger as Schwarzenegger. Mice stay mice; people can change their shapes. So, I would give you an advice - be careful with fast-food. Maybe fast-food meals have no causes on human's shape, but... be careful. So I'm safe until I'm 30? Then I still have some years to eat whatever I want xD
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Post by Deleted on May 11, 2018 21:51:02 GMT
I have been eating only pizzas, chips, tomato juice and dozens of hamburgers at local fast food cafe for ten years from 20 to my 30's. I know few guys who did the same. What is result? - you may ask. I'll give you an answer: none from us got more weight (we didn't get fatter)... BUT after 30's we started to get weight really fast... Human bodies are polygons, but the polygon is getting used to what we're experimenting on it. I mean - the results need time to be shown. I don't know lots of experiments on mice, but mice don't have any possibility to get bigger as Schwarzenegger. Mice stay mice; people can change their shapes. So, I would give you an advice - be careful with fast-food. Maybe fast-food meals have no causes on human's shape, but... be careful. So I'm safe until I'm 30? Then I still have some years to eat whatever I want xD Elizabeth, Elizabeth...
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