Reasons this is pathetic:
1- Aside from prisoners, soldiers are the people over whom the government has the most direct control. They can’t even prevent
2- A fat Army represents the bureaucratization of the military.
3- Gives Michelle Obama more opportunities to talk about obesity as a national security issue.
4- Weight loss injection do NOT need a government subsidy. Any company that develops this stands to make a fucking fortune.
Officials for the US Army are worried that its soldiers are getting to fat and to combat that issue they plan on injecting soldiers with fat.
While it might seem odd to think that fat injections can help soldiers lose weight there are actually two types of fat, the first is white adipose tissue which causes weight gain while the second is brown adipose tissue which actually helps lose weight.
A recent study has found that brown adipose tissue can burn up to 250 calories in a three hour period and even more special is the fact that it uses conventional fat cells to fuel it’s work, burning energy from those cells. The study also found that exercise can help create additional brown fat cells.
Researchers are now attempting to create the brown adipose cells in a laboratory at which point they will be injected into overweight soldiers.
If you aren’t in the Army and you want weight loss injections you might be in luck, a Boston-based company is already working on a commercial treatment.
In the Army’s researcher note in which they granted money to examine the use of brown adipose tissue they wrote:
“Obesity and its associated metabolic complications…are becoming increasingly prevalent in military personnel. Increasing [brown fat] by about 50 grams in obese patients could induce strong weight loss and improve metabolic status.”
If all goes as planned researchers will isolate brown adipose progenitor cells which they will then use to generate new adipose cellsin the lab. If all goes as planned soldiers will receive “transplantation therapy” to shed their extra pounds.
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