Treating Obesity by Shifting the Fat?

That stubborn fat that refuses to budge no matter how hard you try to lose weight was recently the object of a scientific study. In this science project conducted by a collaboration of Indian and Australian researchers a new fat busting method was experimented with.

The idea was to test if fat would burn faster if it was moved to a location of the body that was more active. So fat tissues of white rats were taken from their less active body regions and transplanted on the chest and thighs to increase the glucose insulin based metabolism.

Sure enough the glucose insulin rates more than doubled after the transplant of fat in the rates. This meant that the fat was being metabolized twice as fast as before leading to faster reduction of the fat. Now the researchers claim that a similar technique would allow human beings to treat not just obesity but also diabetes.

Of course the entire science project is in a very nascent stage as of now and it will be years before the process can be tested on a human being. However the idea for a revolutionary new fat loss technique may just have been planted in many more fertile researcher brains. Who knows what new way to burn fat the future will bring?