U.S government researchers find that an epilepsy drug that is being tested to treat addiction also helped to shed weight in obese rats.
The researchers said that their findings not only helped to treat drug addicts, but it also showed promising results for an easy treatment for obesity.
After 40 days of the drug injections (known as Vigabatrin or GVG), even those rats that were bred to be obese seemed to lose almost 19 percent of their weight and normal rats seemed to lose 12 to 20 percent weight.