Eating Activates Calorie-Burning Fat

The importance of the human brown adipose tissue (BAT) has become clearer during the past ten years. Using functional imaging, positron emission tomography, PET, it was possible to show that adult humans have functional BAT. Coldness is one of the most effective activators of the BAT metabolic function but, in rodents, eating has also been shown to activate BAT. The debate on whether eating has the same effect on humans has lasted for decades. Now, the researchers at Turku PET Centre have proven that having a meal increases oxygen consumption in human BAT to the same extent as coldness. https://www.technologynetworks.com/proteomics/news/eating-activates-calorie-burning-fat-305224?utm_campaign=Newsletter_TN_BreakingScienceNews&utm_source=hs_email&utm_medium=email&utm_content=63934286&_hsenc=p2ANqtz-_KSihquDbCd801Vm1SkdkaNyj1SxyuamoU47xrTyQFUF4XJ9lLL5YEFWc6Gj1Yp6xOUqNe7RK2aAXZfhKfT4mnN2nHmg&_hsmi=63934286