Skinny Science

This is what I wrote after I read in the Popular Science Magazine, March 2008. This artical was writen by Graeme Stemp Morlock.

Want to lose weight? Well, I got three easy steps to do just that. All you have to do is shake back and forth, spending a few days in a dark room asleep, or trick your brain by starving yourself, then eat an elixir with a PYY protein in it. If you do those three things it has been proven to lower weight. I am going to tell you about each of those three things.

Clinton Rubin, who is a biomedical engineer, found that if you gently jiggle rodents, it prevents them from getting fat. The vibrations somehow caused the bone-marrow stem cells, which usually turned to fat once animals get older, to become new bone. The other way was to spend a few days in a dark room and sleep. Cheng Chi Lee, a biochemist, experimented on mice by having them sleep in a dark room. They burned their stored fatty acids while doing that. The last way was to starve yourself, then eat an elixir made with a certain protein called PYY. Doing that tricks your brain into thinking that the body is eating regular food.

In my opinion I don’t really agree with the fact that that was tested on rodents not an actual human bean. I think that the idea of just doing those simple procedures is pretty neat. I also think that those scientists have to be pretty smart. I mean to even think of the idea to even try that out. It is just amazing how smart they are.

The results are most likely to be different for a human because first of all we aren’t the same size as the rodent. Second we aren’t even the same species! The test could actually be harmful to us, just because of the differences. Scientist has to go to a lot of schooling to be able to become a scientist. Doing those procedures are way easy and don’t take that much time to do.

In conclusion I think that it is pretty cool that we have scientist to figure out ways to lose weight. The ways are so simple! All you have to do is Shake, sleep, and eat elixir with PYY protein. Maybe you should try it, you never know. You just might lose a few pounds.