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SRT1720 Drug Tricks Your Body Metabolism to Lose Fat

The Holy Grail of Dieting for the increasingly overweight population is an effective safe and easy method of losing weight in the face of our modern lifestyle that has too much food and too little exercise. A new drug compound that is related to resveratrol, tricks your body into burning fat by making it think [...]

A Vaccine Against Obesity

If a vaccine against obesity sounds impossible, it has already been invented. The scientists from The Scripps Research Institute have developed an anti-obesity vaccine that significantly slowed weight gain and reduced body fat in animal models.
In The Scripps study,  male rats  were immunized with an active anti obesity vaccine  The vaccinated rats ate normally yet [...]

The Answer to Why We Gain Weight as We Age

A researcher from Monash University in Australia has discovered that important appetite control cells in the human brain degenerate over time, leading to increased hunger and  weight-gain as we grow older.
The study by Dr Zane Andrews, a neuroendocrinologist with Monash University’s Department of Physiology, has been published in Nature.
Dr Andrews discovered that appetite-suppressing cells [...]