We burn fat - and watch it!

A breathalyzer can tell when we have in the classroom in the gym starts to burn fat. After all, in fact, for this process, the vast majority of the people and take up the rod or trainers.

It is known that the intensity of exercise in humans initially begins to burn carbohydrates contained in foods eaten, and then fat stores. Meanwhile, 90% of visitors to the gym say that fat burning   It is one of the main reasons because of which they regularly do. Alas, often some of them just do not have time to implement his plan, and hiking in the room is inconclusive.

Scientists from Oxford University have created divays analyzing a person's breath. He is able to determine when the process diligent physical activity the body ceases to use the energy from food is stored and takes up the fat under the skin.

The device works by measuring the level of molecules every minute of acetone in the breath of people who are beginning to stand out at the moment "on" the work of subcutaneous fat stores. "Acetone is a molecule produced in the human body, which is burned is not the food as fat, - says the creator of the device, a professor at Oxford University, Gus Hancock. - It's a great way to evaluate the effectiveness of training in the gym. We create a monitor that is able to show people how He vigorously burns fat   in the body. "

By the way, this detector originally created by Professor Hancock entirely for other purposes. Scientists wanted to come up with a breath analyzer for diabetics. As is known, in this disease the level of acetone in the breath rises.

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