Scientists now believe there’s a type of fat, hidden inside us, which could actually help make us thinner. This is called “brown fat”. Unlike “white fat”, which stores energy ...

The month you are born influences how your body stores fat, study finds - People conceived in colder months may end up with ...

Adipose tissue comes in three colors: white, brown and beige. While white fat specializes in storing lipid and expands during obesity, brown fat is thermogenic, turning energy into heat. Beige fat is ...

Rutgers Health researchers have made discoveries about brown fat that may open a new path to helping people stay physically fit as they age. A team from Rutgers New Jersey Medical School found that ...

However, he thinks that combining approaches to control both food intake and energy expenditure will yield more effective anti-obesity drugs than simply activating energy-burning brown fat. “Having ...