1.   Ifyou take in fewer calories than your body needs, you will lose fat.

2.   And even normal mice lost body fat to a lesser degree, he said Wednesday.

3.   But it could help severely overweight people become more active, eat less and lose body fat.

4.   Dr. Richard Atkinson, an obesity researcher at the University of Wisconsin in Madison, said that it was astonishing that the animals lost so much fat.

5.   If drug companies can create medications to turn off this enzyme, the researchers say, it might help men lose abdominal fat.

6.   In contrast, Amgen is betting that a protein called leptin can cause people to lose body fat.

7.   In mice, at least, the hormone is so powerful that it makes even lean mice lose fat.

8.   Jean-Georges Vongerichten, who presides over Vong and Jo Jo, was one of the first chefs to become adept at losing fat while enhancing flavor.

9.   Meatloaf can lose fat if some of the meat is replaced by cooked mashed beans or lentils and some finely chopped vegetables with lots of herbs and spices.

10.   Moreover, both obese and normal mice quickly lost body fat when given injections of leptin made by genetic engineering.