As your body starts burning fat to fuel itself, it releases ketones — which are harmless, but can include acetone. Acetone is a key ingredient in some nail polish removers — which is why your breath ...

The concentration of acetone in breath is a suitable marker of fat burning during physical activity, physicists have shown for the first time. Their study, conducted on walkers taking part in the ...

An investigational device that measures acetone in the breath could one day represent a viable alternative to finger-stick blood glucose self-monitoring for people with diabetes, new research ...

Determining whether that three-mile run or the 8-minute abs session helped trim more pounds is difficult to measure for most diet-conscious people, who often must rely on a scale to determine exact ...

Q: I have been reading about the advantages of a ketogenic diet to lose weight and control blood sugar. I tried this in the past. I lost fat and felt healthy, but I had horrible acetone-smelling ...

Levl says it can tell you how much fat your body is burning just by analyzing your breath. The device comes in two parts: users breathe into a grey pod and then insert it into a white docking station.

High-protein diets can cause your breath to smell. Peanut butter has a lot of sugar, which bacteria love to eat. Diabetes and the keto diet can both give you "acetone breath." Visit INSIDER.com for ...

SINCE Lerch suggested in 1874 that the characteristic odor in a diabetic patient's breath was acetone several methods for measuring this compound in breath have been devised. 1–5 In the small series ...

(Nanowerk News) Experts advise anyone looking to shed extra kilos to eat less and exercise more. One way is with endurance training, during which the body burns not only carbohydrates such as sugar, ...

The study was approved by the Ethical Review Office of the University of Toronto (Toronto, Ontario, Canada), the Bloorview MacMillan Children's Center (Willowdale, Ontario, Canada), and the Toronto ...