Scientists recently believed that just like good and bad cholesterol, there apparently are good and bad types of body fat.
Good fat spurs the body to burn calories to generate body heat and plays an important role in keeping infants warm but by adulthood was mostly gone or inactive.
Researchers study show that some good fat remains in adults, affecting metabolism and potentially offering a target to help people shed pounds.
The studies show this fat burns large amounts of energy.
This concept of ‘good’ fat could be used as a target for a pill that would somehow rev up the fat.
The findings are the most conclusive evidence so far of the role of such fat in regulating body temperature and weight.
The good fat is actually brownish, while the more predominant bad fat is white or yellow. White fat tends to concentrate around the waistline, where it stores excess energy and releases chemicals that control metabolism and the use of insulin.
Women were more likely to have it than men, and their deposits were larger and more active.
Since ‘good’ fat helps to lose the weight, it is necessary to make pills to stimulate a specific protein to release more energy from the fat cells in the form of heat rather than storing it for future energy needs
Researchers at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston have been injecting certain genes into mice to try to produce brown fat cells instead of white ones. Celi said researchers also could try to make a pill that stimulates nerve endings inside brown fat to make it burn more calories.
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