The Diet Diary

Guess what? Scientists are actually making progress on a real fat burning pill. It works … on mice.
Salk Institute scientist Dr. Ronald M. Evans has created a drug that causes the PPAR-d gene to switch “on” so that it starts to burn fat even when mice are inactive. So, I guess this […]

Researchers have found another gene that may keep you from fitting in your jeans. You can’t blame this gene, named FTO, for all the extra girth. But British scientists discovered that people who carry two copies of a variation of the FTO gene weighed, on average, seven pounds more than people who lack it.

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