Could this be the magic anti-fat drug?

Only in your fantasies, right? Maybe not. Scientists at Baylor College of Medicine in Texas, USA and Kyoto University in Japan, working together, have come up with a drug they have named fatostatin that does just that. Mice that were given the drug for four weeks had a 12% decrease in body weight without any restriction in the amount of food they ate.  The study was published in the 28th August edition of the journal Chemistry and Biology.

Fatostatin is unique for obesity drugs because it goes directly to the source- the genes. It stops the body from storing the extra energy in the food eaten. If you eat exactly the amount of kilojoules as your body burns each day, you can't gain weight. This is why a reduction in food intake along with an increase in exercise leads to a person losing weight.