Researchers find new way for eating anything without gaining weight

Though it might sound too good to be true, but we might soon be able to eat whatever we want without worrying about getting fat, thanks to a new gene study.

Researchers at Flinders University have claimed to find a way to make it possible to eat all the high fat food without gaining weight, by removing just a single gene from bodies called RCAN1.

The research was tested on mice that showed positive results. When a single RCAN1 removal, the rodents were able to eat a high fat diet and didn’t even gain weight. The mice with no RCAN1 gene were fed different diets, including high fat ones aimed to cause weight gain.

“We looked at a variety of different diets with various timespans from eight weeks up to six months, and in every case we saw health improvements in the absence of the RCAN1 gene,” said Damien Keating, lead author of the study published in the journal EMBO Reports.

Though human trials have not yet been conducted, but the scientists hope that removing the same gene in humans can help cut down obesity problems and even help in making new drugs to treat issues like diabetes, reported Forbes.

Human body has two types of fat – brown fat that burns energy, and white fat that stores energy. The researchers claim that blocking RCAN1 helps transforming unhealthy white fat into healthy brown fat, thus presenting a potential treatment method in the fight against obesity, Daily Mail explained.

“We really want to pursue this, it’s exciting. These results show we can potentially make a real difference in the fight again obesity.”

Keating even said that this study could further help in making a pill that would do the similar effect, allowing people to burn up more calories while they are resting without affecting their appetite. “It means the body would store less fat without the need for a person to reduce food consumption or exercise more,” Keating said.

“We know a lot of people struggle to lose weight or even control their weight for a number of different reasons. The findings in this study could mean developing a pill which would target the function of RCAN1 and may result in weight loss.”