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Moving Body Fat And Growing It Somewhere Else

by | 2nd, July 2007

CAN fat be exported to slimmer regions?

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Researchers have figured out how to remove fat from one part of the body and make it grow in another part — at least in mice — and say their findings could benefit health as well as beauty.

Their findings also shed light on how and why stressed-out people so often gain weight.

“We don’t think this is something that would be used for gross obesity, but for reshaping the body for use with pockets of fat … that would be all very good,” said Dr. Zofia Zukowska of Georgetown University Medical Center in Washington, who led the study.



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