Cold Exposure Activates Brown Fat

Short term cold exposure was found to help people with brown fat burn 15 percent more calories than those without, stated new small study published in the Endocrine Society's Journal of Clinical Endocrinology (and) Metabolism. The biggest activator of brown fat is moderate cold exposure. "This data improves our understanding of how brown fat works in humans," said the study's corresponding author, Florian W. Kiefer, M.D., Ph.D., of the Medical University of Vienna in Austria. "We found that individuals ...