Adults, especially women, have calorie-burning 'brown fat'
Thursday, June 11, 2009 - 14:42
in Health & Medicine
Keeping your baby fat turns out to be a good thing, as long as it is "brown fat" -- the kind that burns calories, according to a study that found adults have much more of this type of fat than previously thought. The results, which suggest a new way to treat obesity, were presented at The Endocrine Society's 91st Annual Meeting in Washington, D.C.