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Scientists at Monash University's Biomedicine Discovery Institute have found a mechanism by which the brain coordinates feeding with energy expenditure, solving a puzzle that has previously eluded researchers and offering a potential novel target for the treatment of obesity.
Obesity -- a major risk factor for many diseases including cardiovascular disease, Type 2 diabetes, liver disease and several cancers -- is at epidemic levels in Australia.
Researchers from the Metabolic Disease and Obesity Program have shown in laboratory models that feeding controls the 'browning' of fat, that is, the conversion of white fat, which stores energy, into brown fat, which expends it. Fat in the human body is stored in specialised cells called adipocytes, which can change from white to brown states and back again.
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/08/170801193339.htm
Obesity -- a major risk factor for many diseases including cardiovascular disease, Type 2 diabetes, liver disease and several cancers -- is at epidemic levels in Australia.
Researchers from the Metabolic Disease and Obesity Program have shown in laboratory models that feeding controls the 'browning' of fat, that is, the conversion of white fat, which stores energy, into brown fat, which expends it. Fat in the human body is stored in specialised cells called adipocytes, which can change from white to brown states and back again.
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/08/170801193339.htm