When it comes to body fat, beige is the new brown

Friday, June 6, 2014 - 05:30 in Health & Medicine

Readers perennially on the lookout for the next big thing in weight loss have heard of brown fat: those mitochondria-rich fat cells found plentifully between the shoulder blades of mice, babies and young, thin people. The bodies of people and animals with large stores of brown fat rev higher,...

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