How Your Body's Heat-Making Fat Could Help Fight Obesity
Scientists discovered a special protein called Cars2 that helps your body create brown fat—the kind of fat that burns calories to make heat instead of storing …
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How a Tiny Molecule Stops Your Body From Burning Extra Fat
Scientists discovered that a small piece of genetic material called miR-200b-3p may prevent your body from converting regular fat into calorie-burning brown …
Read MoreNew Discovery: Turning Off One Liver Protein Helps Fight Obesity
Scientists found that a protein called PPA1 in the liver plays a surprising role in weight gain. When researchers turned off this protein in mice eating a …
Read MoreNew Brain Target Could Help Bodies Burn More Calories
Scientists discovered a new way to help the body burn more calories and lose weight by targeting a specific area of the brain called the dorsal raphe nucleus. …
Read MoreHow Your Body's Heat-Making Fat Could Help Fight Obesity
Scientists discovered how estrogen helps your body create special "beige fat" that burns calories and generates heat. When people become obese, they lose the …
Read MoreAnimal Fat May Help Your Body Burn More Calories, Study Shows
Researchers fed mice different types of fat to see how their bodies responded. They discovered that mice eating lard (a type of animal fat) at higher levels …
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