Health
Brown fat ‘can boost your health’, study finds – Yahoo News Australia
Unlike the white fat many of us are trying to lose this January, people with brown fat are less likely to suffer from serious diseases, research shows.
As we grow older, brown fat is often replaced by white fat. (Getty)
Unlike the white fat many of us are trying to lose this January, people with brown fat are less likely to suffer from serious diseases, new research has shown.
Brown fat is found in newborns, and helps burn calories to create heat, according to the NHS – but tends to be replaced by bad white fat as we grow older.
But some adults have ample brown fat, a new study based on body scans has found.
The new study in Nature Medicine found…
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