Diet and exercise to become obsolete soon

In article ,
Ignoramus13955 wrote:

http://www.nynewsday.com/news/health...int.story?coll
=ny-health-headlines

The subject of this post is an embellishment, but the results so far
are very interesting.

Should we be looking to being fit, lean, and strong couch potatoes?
Would you take a drug that would make you lean, strong and boost your
endurance? I would, if there was no side effects.

Well, I tend to believe in the addage that any medicine that is strong
enough to cure is strong enough to hurt. The only things that don't have
the potential to cause side effects are things that don't work at all.

--
Michelle Levin
http://www.mindspring.com/~lunachick

I have only 3 flaws. My first flaw is thinking that I only have 3 flaws.

In article ,
Ignoramus13955 wrote:

http://www.nynewsday.com/news/health...int.story?coll
=ny-health-headlines

The subject of this post is an embellishment, but the results so far
are very interesting.

Should we be looking to being fit, lean, and strong couch potatoes?
Would you take a drug that would make you lean, strong and boost your
endurance? I would, if there was no side effects.

Well, I tend to believe in the addage that any medicine that is strong
enough to cure is strong enough to hurt. The only things that don't have
the potential to cause side effects are things that don't work at all.

--
Michelle Levin
http://www.mindspring.com/~lunachick

I have only 3 flaws. My first flaw is thinking that I only have 3 flaws.

Ignoramus13955 wrote:

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| Genetic tests in the mice suggest that a gene that regulates the brain
| chemical dopamine may be involved in this enhanced ... | ability. Dopamine
is a key chemical that regulates motivation and
| reward, as well as movement.

Dopamine is the same chemical that cocaine boosts (and prevents re-uptake
of) to make the user feel good and lose his appetite. So now they can
genetically engineer a crack high and give us that skinny "crack ho" look
without having to smoke it? Cool!
--
Peter
270/215/180
Before/Current Pix:
http://users.thelink.net/marengo/wei...htlosspix.html

"Luna" wrote in message
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Well, I tend to believe in the addage that any medicine that is strong
enough to cure is strong enough to hurt. The only things that don't have
the potential to cause side effects are things that don't work at all.

This also apply to exercise... I wonder how high the medical cost for all
the New Year champions is...
Drugs like that will mostly be beneficial to the food industry. If we are to
maintain a positive economical growth rate, we will eventually have to use
pills like that in order to keep consumming more and more. The men in
Napoleon's infantry used to burn 7k calories a day - if every American
started to eat that much while staying healthy, that would cause a huge
economical boom, of the kind you experienced after WWII.
I wonder who funds these researches...

"Luna" wrote in message
...
Well, I tend to believe in the addage that any medicine that is strong
enough to cure is strong enough to hurt. The only things that don't have
the potential to cause side effects are things that don't work at all.

This also apply to exercise... I wonder how high the medical cost for all
the New Year champions is...
Drugs like that will mostly be beneficial to the food industry. If we are to
maintain a positive economical growth rate, we will eventually have to use
pills like that in order to keep consumming more and more. The men in
Napoleon's infantry used to burn 7k calories a day - if every American
started to eat that much while staying healthy, that would cause a huge
economical boom, of the kind you experienced after WWII.
I wonder who funds these researches...

"marengo" wrote in message
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Dopamine is the same chemical that cocaine boosts (and prevents re-uptake
of) to make the user feel good and lose his appetite.

Dopamine metabolism is also involved in schizophrenia (too high) and
parkinson (too low). Now, a nation of schizophrenic couch potato body
builders would be a fun sight to see ... from afar...

"marengo" wrote in message
...
Dopamine is the same chemical that cocaine boosts (and prevents re-uptake
of) to make the user feel good and lose his appetite.

Dopamine metabolism is also involved in schizophrenia (too high) and
parkinson (too low). Now, a nation of schizophrenic couch potato body
builders would be a fun sight to see ... from afar...

Ignoramus13955 wrote:
::
http://www.nynewsday.com/news/health...alth-headlines
::
:: The subject of this post is an embellishment, but the results so far
:: are very interesting.
::
:: Should we be looking to being fit, lean, and strong couch potatoes?
:: Would you take a drug that would make you lean, strong and boost your
:: endurance? I would, if there was no side effects.
::
:: ``The animals given the drug experienced the same muscle and
:: metabolic benefits of the genetically-bred mice, including
:: protection against weight gain.''
::

I doubt this drug would make exercise obsolete:

::" Researchers found a correlation between how much the animals had run
:: and the activity in certain parts of the brain. And brain regions
:: involved with motivation and movement registered more activity in the
:: animals that didn't get to run on the seventh day, suggesting that
:: the motivational circuits were craving the next opportunity, Rhodes
:: said. "

"Exercise is naturally rewarding."