'Baby fat' could make for leaner adults

Wednesday, April 8, 2009 - 22:49 in Health & Medicine

Studies indicate that most of us retain deposits that could potentially be stimulated to burn off ordinary fat as heat. Three new studies show that most adults have unexpectedly large and active deposits of a calorie-burning type of fat that biologists once thought disappeared after infancy.

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