The researchers found key genes associated with "not eating fat."

News Agency, Sydney, December 8th, "eat not fat" is the dream of many people. Flinders University in Australia has announced that an international genetic study it is involved in is expected to make that dream a reality in the near future.
Flinders University said in a statement that an international team led by researchers found that mice who ate high-fat foods for long periods of time did not gain weight after removing a gene called RCAN1. In addition, mice with the missing gene also had an increased metabolic rate than wild mice, burning more calories without exercise.
damian Keating, a professor at Flinders University who led the study, said: "This means that you don't need to reduce your food intake or exercise more to reduce the amount of fat you store in your body.
he explains that there are two types of body fat, white fat is mainly used for energy storage, brown fat is responsible for consuming the white fat that causes obesity and generates calories, and inhibiting the expression of the RCAN1 gene helps convert white fat into brown fat.
related research is published in the new issue of the European Journal of Molecular Biology. Keating said the findings were exciting, but only animal studies, and further confirmation was needed that the same effect could be achieved in humans. (Source: Xinhua News Agency)