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What is brown fat?

by Dr. Jon Hallberg, Minnesota Public Radio
April 15, 2009

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St. Paul, Minn. — Fat. We all have it to some degree and we have more types of it than you might think.

Recently, there have been three different international studies on the issue of brown adipose tissue. Brown adipose is fat, brown fat to be more precise.

Dr. Jon Hallberg has been reading these studies, and he talks about the skinny on what is a vexing issue for many.

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