Sentences with phrase «white fat deposits»

This approach aims to convert the unnecessary calories to heat in the brown fat deposits rather than storing them in the white fat deposits.

«We wanted to investigate whether human adults had the ability to transform some white fat deposits into beige fat when they were exposed to cold,» said one of the study's authors, Philip A. Kern, MD, of the University of Kentucky School of Medicine in Lexington, KY. «Browning fat tissue would be an excellent defense against obesity.

Not exact matches

Brown fat is fat that is in small deposits that behaves differently than white fat.

As toxins are known to deposit in white fat cells, this action greatly boosts toxin elimination.

It entails application of cold water, which boosts the metabolism and activates the brown fat that enables the body to shed the white fat, which otherwise deposits in various areas on the body, creating bulges.

Cold is also said to activate the brown fat, which in turn boosts the metabolism and helps burn the deposited white fat.