I enjoyed reading the results from a recent study by Associate
Professor Greg Cooney, from Sydney’s Garvan Institute of Medical
Research. Although I’m personally quite convinced that there’s
only one way of loosing weight; to adjust energy intake or
usage, I have heard various other arguments. There has even been
quite the misconception that it’s possible to loose weight only
by burning fat instead of carbohydrates. This idea has also been
suggested in scientific papers, and adopted by several fad
diets. Now, Prof. Cooney and his team has found evidence that
this effect is non existent, there is no magic bullet. “The
energy that fuels your body can come from fats, proteins or
carbohydrates. You won’t know which because the end result is
ATP, or cellular energy.” The researchers used mice which was
genetically altered to burn fat in preference to carbohydrates,
to show that the mice would convert unburned carbohydrate into
fat. This resulted in the body weight and composition to be the
same as normal mice. The