Brown Fat Burns Ordinary Fat, Study Finds

Tuesday, January 24, 2012 - 15:10 in Health & Medicine

In separate studies, researchers have determined that in cold conditions, people’s calorie-gobbling brown fat uses ordinary fat as fuel — and that exercise may convert ordinary fat to brown fat.

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