This person’s phone is delivering the bad news that not much fat is currently melting away.
(Credit: NTT DOCOMO)
Tired of stepping on the scale to get a vague idea of whether all the hard work you put in at the gym is paying off? A new device developed in Japan could help people better gauge which activities are actually burning fat.
At 10 centimeters in length and weighing 4.4 ounces, the portable device measures acetone levels from the user’s exhale. (Elevated levels generally indicate that the body has begun to break down fat.) It then sends the results to a smartphone via Bluetooth or a cable within 10 seconds.
Acetone is expelled through tiny sacs called alveoli when we exhale, though it is also produced when fat is broken down. This means that breath acetone levels can also help diagnose and monitor diabetes, which the researchers are looking into as well.
But a new study testing the device, which was published July 25 in the Journal of Breath Research, revealed something interesting when it comes to burning fat. When researchers at the NTT DOCOMO Research Laboratories in Japan tested it on 17 healthy adult volunteers (11 men, six women… [Read more]
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