The Body-Fat Fire Starter

No sugar food, no body fat. This is the principle of the high-fat, low-carbohydrate Atkins diet. But how does this work?Two new researches link this to a hormone that regulates fat burning when the body turns from carbohydrates to its own fat reserves for getting energy, a discovery... [ read more >> ]

Liver from fasting mice without FGF21 (left) fills with fat, whereas those with the hormone (right) burn it up



Image comment: Liver from fasting mice without FGF21 (left) fills with fat, whereas those with the hormone (right) burn it up
Image credits: Kliewer lab

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Liver from fasting mice without FGF21 (left) fills with fat, whereas those with the hormone (right) burn it up