Vibration platform may help tone abs - No weight loss, but lab tests show device

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Vibration platform may help tone abs

No weight loss, but lab tests show device changes fat distribution

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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 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.