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...breaking the rules and potentially impacting my children or grandchildren," he says. One fair solution, as Stones sees it, would be to "legalize all steroids. That would surely level the playing field." While that might be an easy fix, it would turn sports into a test to see whose liver processed drugs best, a world where the long-jump record could be held by Keith Richards...
Some results of his ordeal, as reported in his documentary Super Size Me, are predictable: he gained 24.5 lbs., and his cholesterol count shot up alarmingly. Some are less so: the amount of damage he did to his liver was roughly the same as if he had been on an alcohol binge of a similar duration. There is also evidence that he became something of a fast-food addict, with his sense of well-being increasingly dependent on the rush his fat-and fructose-laden eats provided. You come away from his film convinced that "Happy Meal" is something more...
Accomplishing that feat requires a lot of communication and coordination among the fat cells, the liver, the muscles, the brain, the stomach and the gastrointestinal tract. Sometimes the signal is a molecule. Other signals are actually conducted along nerve paths. There are even mechanical signals, like the stretching of the stomach, which is one way the body says, "I'm full...
...their excess fat melted away in a matter of weeks. Not only did this strategy eliminate fat tissue--the animals lost 30% of their body weight--but mice that were dangerously overweight quickly regained their health. In fact, early signs of diabetes reversed, fat no longer accumulated in the liver, and cholesterol and glucose levels dropped to normal. "We don't know if this will happen in people," warns Dr. Wadih Arap, a co-leader of the study. "But conceptually, it's possible...
...heard a lot of good ideas about teaching kids about nutrition. But perhaps the most striking and unforgettable lesson we can offer kids is something like the presentation we had from Dr. Mehmet Oz, showing us what organs like the liver look like after years of bad nutrition and obesity. How about a national effort to bring this kind of hands-on lesson into elementary school classrooms? Our student reporters from TIME For Kids confirm that this lesson has the kind of gross-out cool that makes an impression...