Obesity: convert in good fat bad fat would be a good weapon to fight

We often talk of more efficient methods to combat a plague is so widespread as obesity, which often affects children or adolescents. What to do, as doctors try to cure it? An answer to this question comes from an article published in “Cell Metabolism” by scientists at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in Baltimore (USA), which states that make the white fat turns into brown could be a great weapon against obesity.

The study was conducted by a team led by Sheng Bi.
The researchers explained that white fat is typical of adulthood, which has a tendency to accumulate in various parts of the body, granted the prologue for overweight and obesity, and for this reason also called the “bad” fats. The fat “brown”, or “good” is that of infants. Its metabolic activity is greater than the fat “white” or “bad”, then it is easier to burn the calories you have accumulated.

The scientists, disabling a molecule that acts to stimulate the appetite, ‘neuropeptide Y’ (NPY), the mice used as guinea pigs tend to eat smaller amounts of food and their fat, “bad” turned into “good fat”. Why the doctor in charge of research, Sheng Bi, said: “If we can convert the fat to ‘bad’ to ‘good’, so that you burn calories, rather than deposit them we could get a serious tool for address issues related to obesity”.