Study finds there is such a thing as "good" body fat

The Washington Post reports a new obesity theory, published in the New England Journal of Medicine, suggests just as there is good and bad cholesterol there are good and bad types of body fat. Scientists thought the fat only played an important role in keeping infants warm but that by adulthood it was inactive or gone.

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Bad fat is typically white or yellowish but the good fat is brown. If scientists learn more about this particular fat and its role in adults then one possibility would be a pill. The pill, according to researchers, would stimulate a specific protein to release more energy from the fat cells.

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