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Scientists have located the body's toggle for breaking down brown fat – a type of adipose tissue that burns calories to generate warmth.
The abundance of these 'powerhouses' is necessary because one of brown fat's main jobs is to burn blood sugar and fat to heat the body and maintain its core temperature in the cold, as opposed to white fat's storage which is primarily for insulation and protection. nde Topel from the University of Southern Denmark, has now identified brown fat's corresponding 'off switch', using advanced technology to find unknown proteins associated with the metabolism.
In experiments, when scientists fed mice a high-fat diet for 15 weeks, those animals that lacked AC3-AT proteins accumulated less fat in their body and were metabolically healthier than the control group.
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