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April 9, 2009
Did you hear the news story about brown fat today? Although it was previously thought that only infants had brown fat, a new article in The New England Journal of Medicine indicates that nearly all adults have some amount of this brown fat which is activated by cold weather. There is some really interesting research about how to convert fat in the human body to brown fat which consumes calories and generates heat. Dr. C. Ronald Kahn, head of the section on obesity and hormone action at the Joslin Diabetes Center in Boston is quoted in this article. After you read this, you might consider lowering the temperature in your office a few degrees!
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/09/health/research/09fat.html?ref=health
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