Fast-5 Diet and Lifestyle: [fast5] Re: brown fat verses yellow fat

Sunday, August 1, 2010

[fast5] Re: brown fat verses yellow fat

--- In fast5@yahoogroups.com, "tamaratornado" <tamaratornado@...> wrote:
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> I never heard of Brown fat or yellow fat. I take it this isn't the fat you eat but the fat in your own body?

Yes, like your body has White meat and Dark meat, depending upon which type of muscles. Exercised leg muscles, for example, are dark meat.

White fat and some Brown fat is in the body.
Brown fat burns calories, white fat stores them.

"Discovery of Brown Fat in Adults is Latest Hope for Obese Patients"
http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/1636869/discovery_of_brown_fat_in_adults_is.html

Barnaby

> --- In fast5@yahoogroups.com, "lanekoeslin" <koeslin@> wrote:
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> > Hi All,
> >
> > I wonder if anyone on this list has studied the brown/yellow fat factor and applied it to Fast-5.
> >
> > A little about me: I was a skinny kid. Gained a few pounds after each baby. Gained a chunk very quickly while going through some mental anquish. And then began the diet rollercoaster. One diet after another ending with an 8 year stint on Atkins Extreme. Quit that about 5 years ago, because my doctor was concerned over bloodwork results.
> >
> > Four months ago I had a mastectomy due to early stage but invasive breast cancer. 3 months ago I started
> > taking Arimidex to block estrogen. One of the breast cancer risks is high fat intake, according to the literature.
> >
> > That brings me to my interest in the brown fat, yellow fat factor. From what little I've read on the subject, some types of exercise promote the healthy brown fat which burns off the yellow fat as I understand it.
> >
> > Does anyone on this list, Heather perhaps?, have insight or knowledge
> > about this? Thanks in advance,
> >
> > Lane in Illinois
> >
>