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Diet and exercise to become obsolete soon
"Ignoramus13955" wrote in message ... 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. Umm sure, if you're lazy and exercise is a chore. No pill is going to replace things like the sunshine and breezes that make being outdoors pleasant for some of us, nor will a pill give the feeling of accomplishment when reaching a new fitness goal (lifting more, running farther or faster, making that 8 ft. putt, etc.). Jenn |
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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. |
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Ignoramus13955 wrote:
| | 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 |
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"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... |
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"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... |
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"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... |
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"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... |
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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." |
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This reminds me of an article I read recenlty about a school-aged
child who was far stronger than the rest of the students in his age group, had greater endurance, and less body-fat. Almost kind of a "Super-Boy". Apart from his physical advantages, he was no different mentally or socially for the other kids. He looked and acted like any other child on the playgroud (albiet a really fit child). After extensive medical investigation, they found that he had a genetic mutation (which I think had something to do with protiens). Most of us have a control mechanism in the body which regulates muscle growth - a switch that says 'OK, that's enough muscle growth for now'. This child was either missing that control, or it functioned differently for him. His uncle, who worked in construction, was known to be able to hoist huge, heavy slabs of concrete and perform other amazing strengh tasks. The researches speculated that this mutation might not be that rare, but rather more common (found in something like 2-4% of the population?) and largely goes undetected since it requires some very elaborate tests to determine, and there are no know ill effect or symptoms of this mutation. I wonder if this new research is related? Unfortunately, I can't remember the medical publication that the article appeared in, or the doctors involved. The child's identity was kept anonymous. 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. |
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This reminds me of an article I read recenlty about a school-aged
child who was far stronger than the rest of the students in his age group, had greater endurance, and less body-fat. Almost kind of a "Super-Boy". Apart from his physical advantages, he was no different mentally or socially for the other kids. He looked and acted like any other child on the playgroud (albiet a really fit child). After extensive medical investigation, they found that he had a genetic mutation (which I think had something to do with protiens). Most of us have a control mechanism in the body which regulates muscle growth - a switch that says 'OK, that's enough muscle growth for now'. This child was either missing that control, or it functioned differently for him. His uncle, who worked in construction, was known to be able to hoist huge, heavy slabs of concrete and perform other amazing strengh tasks. The researches speculated that this mutation might not be that rare, but rather more common (found in something like 2-4% of the population?) and largely goes undetected since it requires some very elaborate tests to determine, and there are no know ill effect or symptoms of this mutation. I wonder if this new research is related? Unfortunately, I can't remember the medical publication that the article appeared in, or the doctors involved. The child's identity was kept anonymous. 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. |
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