Brown Fat, Triggered by Cold or Exercise, May Yield a Key to Weight Control

NY Times ^ | January 24, 2012 | GINA KOLATA

[neverdem]

A PGC1-α-dependent myokine that drives brown-fat-like development of white fat and thermogenesis

[Mr. K]

dammit...

when are they going to discover something that makes me thin without having to exercise

[RoosterRedux]

I’ll take a gallon of brown fat please...some of that there beef jerky.

[Batman11]

“Brown Fat, Triggered by Cold or Exercise, May Yield a Key to Weight Control”

Not another Moo-chelle thread!

[call meVeronica]

Bump

[call meVeronica]

Bump

[jacksonstate]

Grrrraaaaavvvvyyyyyyyy

[Gator113]

So as I see it, if I stay with Chocolate ice-cream (brown fat), I’ll win at this. ;>)

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

...when are they going to discover something that makes me thin without having to exercise?

I think they just did.

Irisin injections.

[School of Rational Thought]

Turn down the thermostat

[avacado]

"May Yield a Key to Weight Control"

Errrr... don't eat more calories than you burn. That's pretty simple, don't-cha thunk!

[School of Rational Thought]

Turn down the thermostat

[School of Rational Thought]

Turn down the thermostat

[Veggie Todd]

Brown fat? Where’s the little kid that says, “That’s racist!!!”

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[martin_fierro]

Brown Fat, Triggered by Cold or Exercise, May Yield a Key to Weight Control

He may be useful after all.

[netmilsmom]

bttt

[Anti-Bubba182]

...And all the discoveries will lead to something miraculous for weight loss down the road and it never happens.

[discostu]

Stomach flu or the concentration camp diet both do that well. Of course you’ll quickly find exercise not so bad after those.

[JustaDumbBlonde]

I knew all of this 20 years ago.