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Burning extra calories with a 'futile protein cycle'

A new study in the September issue of Cell Metabolism, a publication of Cell Press, points to a new method for burning off all those irresistible extra calories -- by turning on an energy-draining, but otherwise futile, cycle of protein synthesis and breakdown.

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