Thoraiya DyerWhy science and McDonald meals don't mix
November 2nd 2006 09:05
Lately it's been a growing problem for some people to poop the healthy way, let alone eat the healthy way. I'm nagged by the guilty feeling that until scientists haven't found a way to administer Nesfetin-1 when semi-obese folks crave for food, they'd look like the Michelin Man in less than two years. Not that they are such huge eaters, but they could use some luck as those of the lab rats' back in Japan.
From a lab experiment at Gunma University in Maebashi, Masatomo Mori and his colleagues found a protein molecule in the rat that they first dug from its brain and injected back. The goal is to find out if it would cause the rat to shun Happy Meals and become svelte rodents in less than two weeks. The protein molecule is called the nesfetin-1.
When Nesfetin-1 was administered on the rat, he developed a funny feeling that pizzas and burgers tasted like the TV remote control. Like a human undergoing sibutramine treatment, the feeling of unreal fullness made him imagine he gatecrashed the cat party one night when all the cats boozed out and snored on the floor, and he was all free to chow caviar and fish filet as much as he wanted.
The future of human obesity is in the hands of Nesfetin-1, Masatomo Mori's team, and the highly cooperative rats. If scientists get to develop another drug to treat it, they might just give McDonald's, Pizza Hut, and other fast food chains a run for their money.
From a lab experiment at Gunma University in Maebashi, Masatomo Mori and his colleagues found a protein molecule in the rat that they first dug from its brain and injected back. The goal is to find out if it would cause the rat to shun Happy Meals and become svelte rodents in less than two weeks. The protein molecule is called the nesfetin-1.
When Nesfetin-1 was administered on the rat, he developed a funny feeling that pizzas and burgers tasted like the TV remote control. Like a human undergoing sibutramine treatment, the feeling of unreal fullness made him imagine he gatecrashed the cat party one night when all the cats boozed out and snored on the floor, and he was all free to chow caviar and fish filet as much as he wanted.
The future of human obesity is in the hands of Nesfetin-1, Masatomo Mori's team, and the highly cooperative rats. If scientists get to develop another drug to treat it, they might just give McDonald's, Pizza Hut, and other fast food chains a run for their money.
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Comment by Emile
A Lesson A Day
I had an idea the other night: what if you could create a drug that somehow dulls your taste buds, and only activates them on certain times.
Then, if you're on this drug, you can only actually taste the food you're eating on, say, three occasions a day - breakfast, lunch and supper.
The rest of the time any food will taste like rubber, and you'll loose weight like no diet ever made you do.
(But damn, it'll freak me out if a slice of bread just tastes like nothing.)
Comment by Emile
A Lesson A Day
Comment by Ahmed
techy.Bytes
Video Gamer Kids
Little Green Foosballs
PolyKicks
Qwerk
Cinema Three
Now before you start awing at the ridiculous deepness of that statement know that it is a double edged sword. Cut off your tongue if you want, and squeeze your stomach as tight as you desire, being fat is simply a state of mind.