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Brown Fat Fights Fat?

May 4th, 2009 at 08:01am Under Diet Advice+ Health+ News

Brown adipose tissue or “brown fat” has interested researchers for years, as a metabolically active kind of fat. Working as a kind of internal heater, brown fat keeps bodies warm by burning calories. While such fat is found extensively in rodents, scientists did not believe that humans possessed significant amounts of brown fat…until now. Three [...]

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