A Human Fat Cell That Burns Calories? Caught my attention, too.
I thought, okay, eating healthy, nutritionally balanced meals, doing aerobic and weight bearing exercises are the ways to maintain a trim and fit body.
But, hey, if there is a scientific breakthrough that can accelerate the burning of calories, I'm there.
Scientists have been looking at something called brown fat. Brown fat, they surmise, can burn huge numbers of calories, activated by being in a chilly environment. The goal here would be to find a drug that would "affect energy expenditure rather than appetite."
Without any pills available yet, I thought about some other means to stimulate my brown cells into action. These would include, turning up the a/c, standing longingly and endlessly in front of the open door of the refrigerator, ofcourse refraining from eating anything but celery, carrots and other veggies, or lastly, taking up ice fishing.
The first two fly in the face of being environmentally sensitive, so I scrapped them.
Alrighty then, Minnesota, anyone?
