Errrr... don't eat more calories than you burn. That's pretty simple, don't-cha thunk!
Posted on 01/25/2012 1:38:32 PM PST by neverdem
Fat people have less than thin people. Older people have less than younger people. Men have less than younger women.
It is brown fat, actually brown in color, and its great appeal is that it burns calories like a furnace...
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The brown fat also kept its subjects warm. The more brown fat a man had, the colder he could get before he started to shiver.
Brown fat, Dr. Carpentier and Jan Nedergaard, Dr. Cannon’s husband, wrote in an accompanying editorial, “is on fire.”
On average, Dr. Carpentier said, the brown fat burned about 250 calories over three hours.
But there is another type of brown fat. It has been harder to study because it often is interspersed in the white fat and does not occur in large masses. Investigators discovered it in mice years ago. Now, in a recent article, Bruce Spiegelman, professor of cell biology and medicine at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, and his colleagues report that, in mice at least, exercise can make it appear, by turning ordinary white fat brown.
When mice exercise, their muscle cells release a newly discovered hormone that the researchers named irisin. Irisin, in turn, converts white fat cells into brown ones. Those brown fat cells burn extra calories.
Dr. Spiegelman said the brown fat he studies is different from the type that appears in large, distinct masses in rodents, the type Dr. Carpentier was examining in his subjects. That brown fat is derived from musclelike cells and not from white fat.
Dr. Spiegelman suspects that humans, like mice, make brown fat from white fat when they exercise, because humans also have irisin in their blood. And human irisin is identical to mouse irisin...
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
dammit...
when are they going to discover something that makes me thin without having to exercise
I’ll take a gallon of brown fat please...some of that there beef jerky.
“Brown Fat, Triggered by Cold or Exercise, May Yield a Key to Weight Control”
Not another Moo-chelle thread!
Bump
Bump
Grrrraaaaavvvvyyyyyyyy
So as I see it, if I stay with Chocolate ice-cream (brown fat), I’ll win at this. ;>)
I think they just did.
Irisin injections.
Turn down the thermostat
Errrr... don't eat more calories than you burn. That's pretty simple, don't-cha thunk!
Turn down the thermostat
Turn down the thermostat
Brown fat? Where’s the little kid that says, “That’s racist!!!”
He may be useful after all.
bttt
...And all the discoveries will lead to something miraculous for weight loss down the road and it never happens.
Stomach flu or the concentration camp diet both do that well. Of course you’ll quickly find exercise not so bad after those.
I knew all of this 20 years ago.
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