WEIGHT LOSE THROUGH FAT BABY

  Faced with the fight against obesity , researchers propose a new approach  using the baby fat to help adults lose weight .

  Last year , scientists had discovered that there is still a little baby fat in adults. Until then , science argued that only babies and children were covered . The study, conducted at Harvard University , the United States , was published in the New England Journal of Medicine.

  This baby fat , which is also called  brown fat  because of its color, is essential to keep the body heat of infants. Unlike white fat cells , which store energy from the food we eat, the brown fat cells burn calories to generate heat. According to studies, this fat is also more active when it's cold .

  Today , scientists hope to use this good fat ' that burns calories to counter obesity in adults. Researchers at the Medical School of Harvard University have identified a protein in the human body which would appear to stimulate the production of brown fat , while transforming cells white fat brown fat cells .

  They are currently developing a product that would accentuate this process revealed the Wall Street Journal on Tuesday. Within a few years , they hope to develop a chemical compound that stimulate this protein and will create a new treatment to combat obesity.

  Colder temperatures

  Other scientists rather seek to stimulate and make it more active brown fat we already possess . To do this, they want to make the body produce more heat and thus burn more calories. One of the techniques is scrutinized to expose the body to a colder temperature because the colder it gets , the more brown fat is activated and more calories are burned .

  Obviously , living in the constant cold is not a solution, because when cold , we eat more . But researchers do not yet know exactly how long the body must be exposed to cold to stimulate enough of this good fat , says the Wall Street Journal. They do not know if either the exact temperature difference that must undergo the body to adjust.

  We 're not trying to replace diet or exercise , but very often it is not enough or not effective , said the Wall Street Journal professor of medicine and cell biology at Harvard University , Bruce Spiegelman .
Baby fat could be a major asset in promoting weight loss over the next years.