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Title: What drugs can combat obesity?
Post by: thedoc on 13/11/2011 18:13:47

A fat-reducing drug that can reverse obesity in monkeys has been successfully tested by US scientists...

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Title: What drugs can combat obesity?
Post by: Nizzle on 15/11/2011 06:29:46

This is interesting, since it doesn't just shrink the volume of individual fat cells, but rather reduces their number by having the fat cells commit suicide, and thus effectively avoids the Jojo effect of dieting..