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posted by martyb on Wednesday November 16 2016, @10:10PM   Printer-friendly
from the where-does-all-that-fat-GO? dept.

A nerve-zapping headset caused people to shed fat in a small preliminary study.

Six people who had received the stimulation lost on average about 8 percent of the fat on their trunks in four months, scientists reported November 12 at the annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience.

The headset stimulated the vestibular nerve, which runs just behind the ears. That nerve sends signals to the hypothalamus, a brain structure thought to control the body's fat storage. By stimulating the nerve with an electrical current, the technique shifts the body away from storing fat toward burning it, scientists propose.

Six overweight and obese people received the treatment, consisting of up to four one-hour-long sessions of stimulation a week. Because it activates the vestibular system, the stimulation evoked the sensation of gently rocking on a boat or floating in a pool, said study coauthor Jason McKeown of the University of California, San Diego.


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  • (Score: 2) by SanityCheck on Thursday November 17 2016, @02:20AM

    by SanityCheck (5190) on Thursday November 17 2016, @02:20AM (#427925)

    Jesus man, I wish I drank so I could give it up as a weight-loss device :) I do fall off the wagon with soda once in a while, but overall that just means my body compensates by eating less. And I tend to fall off the wagon as response to stress.

    I am barely overweight according to BMI (25.5), but it seems as they say retarded since a lot of my weight gain was while building muscle (I gained 20 lbs, and now I am dropping it back down with another 6 left to go) because I stuffed myself with food else I could not lift the heavy weights after a whole day of work).

    But sure I would love to use something other than a mix of starvation and anxiety as a diet-plan :)

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  • (Score: 2) by dyingtolive on Thursday November 17 2016, @04:57AM

    by dyingtolive (952) on Thursday November 17 2016, @04:57AM (#427964)

    It's a thing. The better choice would have been to not start drinking to begin with. Sometimes I think of all the money spent over the years, but if it wasn't on that it would have been on something else I guess.

    I barely touch soda. I'll have a Coke or Dr. Pepper maybe once a month. I don't normally eat anything sweet either. No candy, usually no junk food, minus a few tortilla chips and salsa lately here and there when the girlfriend gets some out. Interestingly, my response to stress is to typically NOT eat. I'll go a day or two without eating and then realize that I'm shaky and bad feeling because I haven't eaten.

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