In Your Breath: Measure When Your Body Starts Burning Fat (VIDEO)
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Blow into the tube, please. In the future, the procedure will not just be used by police checking for alcohol intoxication, but also for testing the condition of athletes and for people who want to lose that extra bit of weight. A sensor developed by ETH researchers makes it possible to measure when the body starts burning fat with a convenient breathalyser. Reference: üntner AT, Sievi NA, Theodore SJ, Gulich T, Kohler M, Pratsinis SE: Noninvasive body fat burn monitoring from exhaled acetone with Si-doped WO3 sensing nanoparticles. Analytical Chemistry, 11 September 2017
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