Just when I think I have seen all the stupidest ab machines. Here we go again! If standing on a vibrating platform for 15 minutes will give you washboard abs. Why are there so many fat people on the subway? Shouldn’t they all have washboard abs if this theory is correct?
Here is the MSNBC article excerpt:
No weight loss, but lab tests show device changes fat distribution
The Associated Press
Wed., Oct. 24, 2007
PORTLAND, Maine – A Maine researcher says standing on a vibrating platform for 15 minutes a day could help people achieve washboard abs.
Clifford Rosen from The Jackson Laboratory and Maine Medical Center Research Institute says his study put mice on a vibrating platform for 15 minutes a day for 15 weeks.
He says the mice developed 27 percent fewer abdominal fat cells and saw other benefits, including reduced triglycerides in the liver.
The mice didn’t lose weight but Rosen says it appears that the vibrations changed fat distribution in a beneficial way. The study by Rosen and his research partners was published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
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