How long before we have a weight loss program based on this ?

Researchers at UT have found that if you stay in darkness about 48 hours, you begin to burn fat.

On diets

So much for the atkins diet. The worst part of the story is that you will always have people telling you that specific foods are bad or good in great quantities when one knows that one should always be on the safe side. The other part of the equation is just plain thermodynamics, one simply needs to eliminate more than one consumes. Actually, studies on animals show that the more starved (within reason) you are the longer you live