Why Brown Fat is Good Fat

Obesity continues to be a growing global epidemic. According to the World Health Organization, 1.4 billion people in the world are overweight and nearly half of them are considered obese as their BMI is over 30. People who are overweight are at increased risk of diabetes, heart attacks, strokes, neurological diseases, and even cancer. As the world’s population has shifted to a modern diet, more and more people are finding their energy expenditure is far less than their intake. These excess calories are storied in the adipose tissue as fat.

The adipose tissue once considered to a simple homogenized mass of …read more