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...Brown fat may indeed shift the balance of calorie intake and expenditure - allowing a person to burn more calories with the same amount of consumption - without the chore of going to the gym or sweating through a workout. "We have very few interventions aimed at increasing energy expenditure," says Dr. Franceso Celi, a clinician at the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases at the National Institutes of Health. "And here we have a tissue that works exactly with the purpose of burning energy." On the basis of animal models, researchers calculate that 50 g of brown...
...third study in the New England Journal of Medicine, researchers found that leaner people tended to have more brown-fat deposits than overweight or obese individuals. Interestingly, women were twice as likely as men to have active brown fat, according to the study, conducted by Dr. Ronald Kahn and his colleagues at the Joslin Diabetes Center, Massachusetts General Hospital, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, and Brigham and Women's Hospital...
...been a clinical impression for a long time that in some patients with asthma, if you treated their reflux, their asthma got better," says Dr. John Mastronarde, an author of the new study and the director of the asthma center at Ohio State University, who has prescribed the medications known as proton pump inhibitors (PPI) to about a quarter of his asthma patients...
...pointed out that racial minorities have limited representation on the school committee. Simmons is the body’s only black member. “When people deny that it’s not about race, it is, it always is,” she said. “Dr. Young was very articulate and presented well, things that most white people like. He spoke their language. He related to them.” School committee member Luc D. Schuster said in an interview last week that although race is often an unavoidable factor, it would be simplistic to ignore...
Some women have it all - but maybe they shouldn't. Controversial radio therapist and self-help guru Dr. Laura Schlessinger argues that mothers' careers belong on the back burner while they raise their children themselves. A self-described "recovering feminist," Schlessinger says watching a documentary on childbirth at age 35 summoned the maternal instincts she believes are present in even the most "liberated" of women. She spoke with TIME about her tough-love advice, her talking action figure and her 12th book, In Praise of Stay-at-Home Moms. (Read "What Mother Nature Teaches Us About Motherhood...