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A team by an Indian-origin researcher showed that they were able to turn white fat into brown fat in mice by blocking a natural chemical in their bodies.
The change led to weight loss, improved blood sugar levels and insulin tolerance in the rodents, the team reported in the journal Cell Metabolism.
“Considering that efforts to combat obesity with anti-obesity drugs have been frustrating, and that reducing obesity by dieting are often challenging in the long term, there is certainly a need for a new out-of-the-box approach,” Sushil Rane, lead author of the National Institutes of Health study, was quoted as saying by the ABC News. —PTI