Making Metabolism More Inefficient Can Reduce Obesity

Monday, October 6, 2008 - 12:07 in Health & Medicine

In a discovery that counters prevailing thought, a study in mice has found that inactivating a pair of key genes involved in "fat-burning" can actually increase energy expenditure and help lower diet-induced obesity.

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