It is widely known that surplus eaten sugar is converted by the body to fat. A conversion from fat to sugar should also be theoretically possible. Until now this changing of direction (from fat to sugar) is not known in the human body and is chemically more difficult. Recently scientists from Jena, Germany found, that the other way round is possible too. They discovered this using biochemical, gen-sequence analytic and bioinformatic methods. This theory must be still experimentally approved in a living cell. When approved this may be an important progress in nutritional science. Then strategies and medicaments may be developed, which degrade fat from the human body.
Source:
Kaleta C. et al. (2011) PloS Comput Biol 7:e1002116
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