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Boosting 'good' fat to burn off the bad

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Origins of calorie-sizzling fat cells uncovered in mice.

To most dieters, no fat is good fat. But in work published this week in Nature, an insight into the origin of a special class of calorie-burning fat cells could lead to new ways of boosting metabolism and combating obesity, researchers say.

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Ledford, H. Boosting 'good' fat to burn off the bad. Nature (2008). https://doi.org/10.1038/news.2008.1051

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