If you're trying to lose weight, watermelon is one of the best fruits to include in your diet. It's high in water yet low in ...

Researchers have identified a mechanism where the removal of the mitochondrial protein MCJ in mice leads to increased heat ...

A new study uncovers a novel mechanism through which brown fat is transformed into heat, offering protection against obesity-related diseases. Obesity affects 650 million people worldwide and signific ...

An Oscar statuette will also be presented to honor the developers of captioning at the April 29th awards ceremony.

Scientists are tackling society's growing obesity problem from all kinds of angles – and new research picks out a particular ...

Meanwhile, inactive muscle and brown fat use little energy: One pound (0.45 kilogram) of relaxed muscle burns 6 calories and ...

Fat is generally believed to store calories, but this special type of fat tissue improves exercise performance.

To calculate your maximum heart rate, take 220 and minus your age for your estimated heart rate max. Walk at 60 to 70 per cent of this and you will burn more fat. The experts at PureGym stated that ...

So the first thing is to understand how it works." "Discovering new mechanisms of heat production in brown fat is one of the most interesting targets in the study of obesity," says Sabio. How to burn ...

This work reveals a new mechanism by which brown fat is converted into heat, and which protects from pathologies associated with obesity. This work reveals a new mechanism by which brown fat is ...

White adipose tissue mostly stores energy, while brown fat (its cells have more mitochondria and that gives them a brown hue) is responsible for heat generation or thermogenesis, the process that ...