Unexplained weight gain and obesity are nightmares for a healthy individual. Sadly, the number of obese individuals is increasing day by day due to several reasons. No matter how hard you try, you will have a difficult time losing weight when fat cells have accumulated all over your body.
You may recall the previous post on the seminar that I attended on Comparative Physiology of Brown Adipose Tissue at the Experimental Biology meeting last week.
Here are some of the comparative physiology abstracts that were presented at the meeting on this topic:
Unexplained weight gain and obesity are nightmares for a healthy individual. Sadly, the number of obese individuals is increasing day by day due to several reasons. No matter how hard you try, you will have a difficult time losing weight when fat cells have accumulated all over your body.
MIT and Harvard Medical School researchers mapped out many of the cells, genes, and cellular pathways that are modified by exercise or a high-fat diet. They hope their findings will help guide the design of drugs that might mimic some beneficial effects of exercise.