It is brown fat, actually brown in color, and its great appeal is that it burns calories like a furnace. A new study finds that one form of it, which is turned on when people get cold, sucks fat out of the rest of the body to fuel itself. Another new study finds that a second form of brown fat can be created from ordinary white fat by exercise.
Of course, researchers say, they are not blind to the implications of their work. If they could turn on brown fat in people without putting them in cold rooms or making them exercise night and day, they might have a terrific weight loss treatment. And companies are getting to work.
Comment: The mental gymnastics it takes to end up believing that whether or not humans consume animals can alter the climate of the whole planet's biosphere are mind-blowing!
Leaving that obvious fallacy aside for a moment, a glaring omission in this article is the viable, natural, environmentally-friendly solution for anyone who wants to stop hurting the planet: a healthy Paleo diet based on grass-fed cattle.
To understand why grain (for either humans or the animals they eat) and vegetable consumption is at the root of the mass planetary bio-ecocide, read up on The Vegetarian Myth:
The Vegetarian Myth
Lierre Keith on 'The Vegetarian Myth - Food, Justice and Sustainability'
The Myth of the Ethical 'Vegan'