Creating Bown Fat to Possibly Help Obesity
Everyone would like an easy way to treat their weight problems. While just taking a weight loss pill seems to be the easiest way, scientists may be working on another way of “do nothing to lose” weight treatment. Something they refer to as “brown fat”.
“Brown adipose tissue (Brown fat) is coming to the forefront of research in diabetes and obesity because its role is burning energy,” says Francesco Celi, an endocrinologist at the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases in Bethesda, Md.
Unlike energy-storing white fat, brown fat burns energy. Known to keep small animals and dimply babies warm in cold temperatures, brown fat has been shown recently to be present in adults (Science News May). This finding made researchers think it might be feasible to combat obesity by increasing the amount and activity of brown fat stores in the adult body.
More of the technical jargon can be seen in this article.
Of course scientists are not ready to give this to humans yet.
Unlike natural brown fat cells, though, which are able to tune energy consumption (and heat production) to adapt to different conditions, these newly created fat cells appear to always have their thermostats set to high. This may be a problem for therapeutic interventions, comments Leslie Kozak of Pennington Biomedical Research Center in Baton Rouge, La. Constantly burning the maximum amount of energy would produce a lot of heat. “A constant fever would not be desirable,” he says.
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obesity kills people, lots of diseases are triggered by obesity*’”
obesity is a grownig problem these days coz of a bad lifestyle and diet’`~
obesity has really gone out of hand, i think that we should do some diet modification for all of us “