Wednesday, July 30, 2014

Healthy 'Brown Fat' May Cut Odds for Obesity, Diabetes – WebMD

Healthy 'Brown Fat' May Cut Odds for Obesity, Diabetes – WebMD: "This is good news for overweight and obese people," Labros Sidossis, a professor of internal medicine in the division of geriatric medicine at the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston, said in a university news release. "This is great news for people with insulin resistance and diabetes, and suggests that brown fat may prove to be an important anti-diabetic tissue."

Previous research has suggested that brown fat plays a role in regulating body temperature, according to the U.S. National Institutes of Health.

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