Saturday, July 14, 2012

Obesity-fighting tissue in humans is actually not quite brown, says study

The calorie-burning and heat-generating brown fat found in full-grown humans is actually not quite brown; it's beige. So says a new study reported on July 12th in the journal Cell, a Cell Press publication, in which researchers fully characterize this promising obesity-fighting tissue in both mice and humans for the first time.

URL: http://www.news-medical.net/news/20120714/Obesity-fighting-tissue-in-humans-is-actually-not-quite-brown-says-study.aspx

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