Orexin And Weight Loss: Fight Fat With Fat
Tuesday, October 4, 2011 - 18:10
in Health & Medicine
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 33.8 percent of American adults are obese. placing them at increased risk for type 2 diabetes, coronary heart disease, stroke, and certain cancers. That's a lot of fat, but not all fat is bad.When we picture body fat, what we are thinking of is white fat but another type, brown fat, does more - it burns body fat. It was once believed that brown fat disappeared after infancy but recent advances in imaging technology led to its rediscovery in adult humans read more