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T1 “Browning” of white fat may help in the ongoing fight against obesity
JF JAMA
JO JAMA
YR 2012
FD September 19
VO 308
IS 11
SP 1080
OP 1080
DO 10.1001/2012.jama.11403
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/2012.jama.11403
AB 
Their efforts focus on white fat, adipose tissue that stores calories, and brown fat, adipose tissue that burns calories and generates heat in the process. In a recent advance, investigators identified a hormone produced by muscle during exercise that instructs cells within white adipose depots to take on the characteristics of brown adipose cells, creating what the researchers have termed beige fat cells.