Are you waiting for a new exercise pill?

Monday 11th August 2008 - 4:48:40 PM

Don’t get too excited.

By giving ordinary adult mice a drug - a synthetic designed to mimic fat - Salk Institute scientist Dr. Ronald M. Evans is now able to chemically switch on PPAR-d, the master regulator that controls the ability of cells to burn fat. Even when the mice are not active, turning on the chemical switch activates the same fat-burning process that occurs during exercise. The resulting shift in energy balance (calories in, calories burned) makes the mice resistant to weight gain on a high fat diet.

Yes, it all sound great. But what about other, more important benefits of exercise: reducing a risk of cardio-vascular diseases, osteoporosis, mental aging,etc.

Also I don’t want to see a potential risk and side effects associated with this new pill. Is seem too good to be truth.

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