Bryan Hubbard
July 12 2019
Drinking a cup of coffee could kick-start the body's fat-fighting abilities and help prevent obesity and diabetes.
The drink seems to stimulate a type of fat in the body known as 'brown fat' or brown adipose tissue. The fat helps generate body heat by burning sugar and fat, often when the temperature drops, whereas white fat is the consequence of storing excess calories.
But other than a cold day, nobody has worked out how to stimulate brown fat—although, until recently, scientists believed only babies and hibernating animals possessed it. Brown fat in adults is mainly found around the neck.
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