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Get Trim Laying on the Couch!
September 12th 2008 15:00
If you just can’t get that “get up and go” feeling, you’re not alone. There has been a consistent rise in adult and child obesity over the past decades. In fact, 66% of the U.S. population is considered overweight. Fortunately, a new pill has been created which could help make your muscles more efficient, allowing more calories to be burned while doing nothing more than sitting on the couch.
This new pill combines a protein, which activates genes that are normally only turned on during exercise, and an enzyme which fools the body into believing it is exercising even when it isn’t. When this pill was fed to mice, they were able to run 44% farther and 23% longer than before the pill. This is fairly amazing considering they had to do nothing more than chew a pill to increase the distance they could run by almost 50%. In fact, after four weeks of taking the pill, their bodies acted as if they had been exercising every day, when in fact, they had been sedentary.
A pill such as this could help those with diseases which prevent them from exercising. It could also help those trying to lose weight to do it faster and with less stress and pain. “No pain, no gain” could become “no pain but all the gain”. While this type of pill won’t magically convert fat cells to muscle cells, it would make more efficient muscle cells. These could burn more calories continuously throughout the day, which could help reduce a waistline, especially if combined with even slight amounts of exercise and even a moderately decent diet. Even though this is still being tested and not on the market as yet, the hope it could bring to many people's lives could have it flying off the shelves when introduced into the market.
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