{"id":5743,"date":"2020-04-28T14:36:47","date_gmt":"2020-04-28T14:36:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zestmag.com\/online\/?p=5743"},"modified":"2020-04-28T14:36:48","modified_gmt":"2020-04-28T14:36:48","slug":"people-with-brown-fat-may-burn-15-more-calories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/zestmag.com\/online\/people-with-brown-fat-may-burn-15-more-calories\/","title":{"rendered":"People with brown fat may burn 15% more calories"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Short-term cold exposure may help people with brown fat burn 15 percent more calories than those without, according to a small study published in the Endocrine Society&#8217;s\u00a0<\/strong><em><strong>Journal of Clinical Endocrinology &amp; Metabolism<\/strong><\/em><strong>.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Unlike white fat, brown fat burns calories through fatty acid oxidation and heat production and is considered a promising target in the fight against the obesity epidemic. The biggest activator of brown fat is moderate cold exposure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;This data improves our understanding of how brown fat works in humans,&#8221; said the study&#8217;s corresponding author, Florian W. Kiefer, M.D., Ph.D., of the Medical University of Vienna in Austria. &#8220;We found that individuals with active brown fat burned 20 more kilocalories than those without.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The researchers identified two groups using a PET scan&#8211;those with and without active brown fat. They analyzed brown fat function and energy expenditure in these individuals before and after short-term cold exposure finding that the group with active brown fat not only burned significantly more calories but had a healthier fatty acid blood profile.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;We have to study human brown fat in more detail to see if this organ can protect us against metabolic and cardiovascular disease,&#8221; Kiefer said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Other authors include: Oana C. Kulterer, Carsten T. Herz, Alexander R. Haug, Dietmar Pils, and Alexandra Kautzky-Willer of the Medical University of Vienna; and Laura Niederstaetter, Andrea Bileck, and Christopher Gerner of the University of Vienna in Austria.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The study was supported by the Vienna Science and Technology Fund, the Austrian Science Fund and the Austrian Diabetes Association Research Fund.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The manuscript, &#8220;The Presence of Active Brown Adipose Tissue Determines Cold-Induced Energy Expenditure and Oxylipin Profiles in Humans,&#8221; was published online, ahead of print.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Short-term cold exposure may help people with brown fat burn 15 percent more calories than those without.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":5237,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[2370,1302,900,1867,1090],"class_list":["post-5743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-newsmakers","tag-brown-fat","tag-fat","tag-fat-loss","tag-fats","tag-fatty-acid"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/zestmag.com\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5743","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/zestmag.com\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/zestmag.com\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zestmag.com\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zestmag.com\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5743"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/zestmag.com\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5743\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5744,"href":"http:\/\/zestmag.com\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5743\/revisions\/5744"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zestmag.com\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5237"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/zestmag.com\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zestmag.com\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zestmag.com\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}