fat burning

Making Metabolism More Inefficient Can Reduce Obesity

ScienceDaily  Fri, 10/03/2008 - 21:45

In a discovery that counters prevailing thought, a study in mice has found that inactivating a pair of key genes involved in "fat-burning" can actually increase energy expenditure and help lower diet-induced obesity.


 

Making metabolism more inefficient can reduce obesity

EurekAlert! - Chemistry, Physics and Materials Sciences  Wed, 10/01/2008 - 23:00

(American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology) In a discovery that counters prevailing thought, a study in mice has found that inactivating a pair of key genes involved in "fat-burning" can actually increase energy expenditure and help lower diet-induced obesity.