Aug 1 2008Because Working Out And Dieting Sucks: Scientists Develop A Workout In A Pill

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Scientists at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies in La Jolla, CA announced on Thursday that they've developed a drug that gives you the benefits of exercise without actually doing anything. Unfortunately, they tested the compound on mice instead of my bedridden lover.

Sedentary mice that took the drug for four weeks burned more calories and had less fat than untreated mice. And when tested on a treadmill, they could run about 44 percent farther and 23 percent longer than untreated mice.

We have exercise in a pill," said Ron Evans, an author of the study. "With no exercise, you can take a drug and chemically mimic it."

When asked what was in the drug, Evans replied, "It's difficult to explain....but have you ever been to a rave?"

Hit the link if you want to read a really long article about the stuff.

Drug gives couch potato mice benefits of a workout [yahoonews]

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HA! that's a really f***ing fat rat, looks like they roided that thing up.

I have been to a rave, so basically what this guy is saying is that they patented X. take a hit and sweat like a mad man and have an unquenchable thirst to move around and suck on a pacifier while flailing fluorescent tubes in a dark room. . . awesome. side-effects include looking like a douchebag, heart palpitations and death. so, when are these bad boys hitting the market?

Good grief, how damn lazy can the fat asses in this country get??? Put down the forks fatties and walk your butt around the block a few times! Why does everyone CHOOSE to be fat as hell and then give the standard excuses like "I'm depressed" or "I have a food addiction" or my personal favorite "I didn't realize that eating McDonalds 3-5 times per week would have so many calories". Now they're going to have a pill so everybody pile on the fast food and just make some more excuses!

...one more thing (this is for all you thin or average people out there) 1 out of every 6 of your tax dollars goes into medical costs for these beached whales. Think about that...1 in 6.

Hmmm, how can one out of six dollars go toward the Fatty McFatty Pants when there's no universal/nationalized healthcare? Funny how that works, isn't it.

Anyway, I highly doubt that this pill works and I'll just continue to walk my dog. Oh, the British are fatter than Americans now, so I suggest you go bitch at the U.N., Joker. I'm sure they'd love your rhetoric there...

They had something similar in the 60s. Speed. Now thanks to amphetamines we have "friendly fire"

it's a fat rat, not a roided rat. they overfeed them, sedate them, and keep them away from treadmills and those wheels.

the intention of this drug is to help diabetics, who often can't exercise because of their disease, but the exercise would reduce the effects of diabetes. of course, atheletes are already after the drug - anything to help increase that home run record. and while it is a lazy cop out for obese people, if it does slim them down, and reduces medical costs, then that's a good thing.

sadly, it's nothing like a rave.

@3 you tell him SmokingGirl I just downed three of these diet pills and I'm f***ing amped. want me eat his face?

Well SmokingGirl since the definition of rhetoric is the art of speaking or writing effectively. I thank you for the compliment. So tell me darling, how fat ARE you?

"People who can't exercise because of a medical condition like joint pain or heart failure might also benefit from such a drug, experts said."

That's why I say it's good, but otherwise, people will become reliant on a drug like that... All drugs have side effects, right? So what the hell is this going to do...?

Oh, one more thing SmokingGirl (does that name refer to your heavy tobacco use or your lovely visage?), we do have universal healthcare. It's called Medicaid and the last time I checked anyone could get it.

one more thing (this is for all you thin or average people out there) 1 out of every 6 of your tax dollars goes into medical costs for these beached whales. Think about that...1 in 6........I may be wrong, isn't the average person over weight?

Exercise in a pill? That borders on oxymoronic.

I dunno whether I'd like a pill like this to come out. I know a shitload of stupid girls (and the odd boy) will take too many in a ridiculous attempt to be SUPER skinny or lose weight FASTER. Plus there is nothing like an exercise pill to encourage lazy people to keep on living. Obesity due to health disorders are one thing but being a coach potato is a health disorder with only one cure - a shotgun.

Joker, perhaps you were unaware as to the several meanings to the word "rhetoric":
Language that is elaborate, pretentious, insincere, or intellectually vacuous.

Does that break it down enough for you, or would you like me to draw you a pretty picture?

Eat his face, Julian...

Yes SmokingGirl, I would love a lovely picture. One with cake. Cake with alot of frosting. Then maybe slam that sucker down, get some fat pills, then some liposuction when those fail and round it off with another pretty picture of a doctor giving you your juvenile diabetes test results....yes, very pretty indeed.

...and you still haven't addressed your tobacco use. It kills to you know.

side effects include rectal bleeding, diarrhea, swelling of the breasts, irritability, dizziness, nausea, chronic migraines, liver failure, hair loss, uncontrollable bleeding, blindness, erectile dysfunction, depression, runny nose, heightened sense of taste but everything tastes like ear wax , paranoia, hallucinaitons, night terrors, jimmy legs, etc.

Is this foreplay almost done, Joker? I have some things that I need to work on...

And lol@Tom; I particularly like the 'everything tastes like ear wax' part.

I want a fat ass mouse on speed

@1 Everyone whose popped candy knows that one could become an olympic caliber marathon runner while rolling~

@3 SmokingGirl = one f***ing retarded chick. Stupid Artsy who always talks BS on stupid website, because she ain't getting any schlong. I don't give a shit how literary you are with English. You know, I know what Ganniniang means in chinese, do you? Anyways, any chick posting on these sites are either fat or ugly. No, I'm wrong. There's another possibility, fat and ugly.

Also, if you think this pill doesn't work, you're even more retarded. Ugly, fat and retarded. Sticks and stones don't hurt anyone's bones, unless it's true. So take my worthless chat as BS from a flamer.

Bring on the hurt~ I don't give a shit! I'm just a cynical bastard who dislikes reading a post such as #3.

I'm fat and ugly (in the middle), even after my 1100km bike ride: http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=854988&id=506356465

Hey Smoking Girl nice to see you. Who the hell knows if they get one out of six dollars or even more? I just would like to see them get off those f***ing electric carts at the grocery store. They are on Medicaid for being fat which pays for their electic carts (or the grocery store will give them one) so they can roll around and buy more groceries and get even fatter. I would be hard pressed to say which irritates the living shit out of me more - homeless beggars with a "will work for beer" sign (10,000 comedians out of work and I get this guy) or people too fat to walk so they have to be rolled in to buy more fat food.

Somebody up there said they might get dependent on the pills. They say that like that's a bad thing. Are they not dependent on electic carts, dependant on food stamps and other government handouts? I say stoke their blubbery asses with GoFast and let them GET A JOB.

You know what's fun, Monkey? To get drunk and then race the motorized carts up and down the aisles before the store clerks tell you to leave.

lol sorry to tell all the lazy f***ers out there...this pill doesn't mean shit. There are HUNDREDS of drugs that make you burn more calories and allow you to perform at higher levels than normal. Ever heard of anabolic steroids? What about ephedrine? Hell even caffeine does.

The good news is someone is going to get rich as hell off this drug because all the same morons who buy Proactol off late night info-mercials will shell out millions instead of facing reality: no pill will ever replace the benefits of diet and exercise.

#3 - I think you mean the UK smart guy.

No, 22, I meant the U.N.. Nothing like waxing poetic upon the "world's stage" eh?

And I'm a she...

Considering you were singling out British people for your generalization UK would have been better there. The US is part of the UN anyway so...

The magic science drug is called Aicar. It stimulates an indivudual cell's production of mitochondria (midi-chlorians in Star Wars that provide people with the Force were based off the reality of mitochondrias). There mini cell components produce ATP, hence energy... if you will electrons. Which is in my opinion, what causes all things to glow ever so slightly.

Also, soon the government will control the food supply. You won't be asked to take you vitamins any longer. it'll work out fine. Don't you worry, it's just one step away from becoming a robot. And YOU thought the robots would kill us all. (Haha)

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