Fighting fat - with fat? Studies say it’s possible

By Gina Kolata / The Bulletin
April 9, 2009

For more than 30 years, scientists have been intrigued by brown fat, a cell that acts like a furnace, consuming calories and generating heat. Rodents, unable to shiver to keep warm, use brown fat instead. So do human infants, who also are unable to shiver their muscles to stay warm. But it was....

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