Friday, August 01, 2008

Pills will replace exercising: eat all you want :-)

No, this is not from The Onion. And it is no April First joke either.
This is from the Scientific American. Yes, that is right. I suppose this means that we can eat the cheesecake and have it too. Excerpt:

Scientists have found a drug that mimics the effects of a workout by, among other things, increasing the body's ability to burn fat.The study shows the pill can also increase endurance; lab mice that took it ran more than 40 percent longer on a treadmill than their untreated peers."It's tricking the muscle into 'believing' it's been exercised daily," says Ronald Evans, a developmental biologist at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies, in La Jolla, Calif., and co-author of a study published in Cell. "It proves you can have a pharmacologic equivalent to exercise."

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