First step toward pill for obesity taken, researchers report

[Northerner]

Researchers have taken what they are describing as 'the first step toward a pill that can replace the treadmill' for the control of obesity -- though it of course would not provide all the additional benefits of exercise. The researchers have already identified two compounds that can accomplish that in human cells.

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/12/141208145510.htm