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Fear of what? Take your pick. Fear that the U.S. is on a long march to fascism. (As evidence, Beck cited - on April Fools' Day but apparently seriously - the inclusion of fasces on the Mercury dime in 1916.) That fat cats and bureaucratic "bloodsuckers" are plundering your future. That Mexico will collapse and chaos will pour over the border. That America believes too little in God and too much in global warming. That "they" - Big Government, Big Business, Big Media - are against you. Above all, that you, small-town, small-business America - Palinville - have been forgotten. Dismissed. Laughed at. Just...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Glenn Beck: The Fears of a Clown | 4/8/2009 | See Source »

...called brown fat (as opposed to the more familiar white fat that hangs over belt buckles and swings from the backs of arms), and a series of papers published in the New England Journal of Medicine confirm for the first time that healthy adults have stores of this adipose tissue, which researchers hope to study further as a potential new weight-loss treatment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Brown Fat: A Fat That Helps You Lose Weight? | 4/8/2009 | See Source »

...most people, fat is a burden. It doesn't really matter whether it appears as cellulite on our thighs or cholesterol in our veins - we just don't want...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Brown Fat: A Fat That Helps You Lose Weight? | 4/8/2009 | See Source »

...turns out that our bodies also make a unique form of fat tissue that behaves remarkably unlike any other: rather than storing excess energy, this fat actually burns through it. (See the top 10 food trends...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Brown Fat: A Fat That Helps You Lose Weight? | 4/8/2009 | See Source »

...Until now, only rodents and human newborns have been known to have any significant deposits of brown fat, so called because of its abnormally high concentration of dark-colored mitochondria, the engines that sustain cell activity. The primary purpose of brown fat is to regulate body temperature: the mitochondria-packed cells are designed to burn high quantities of sugar, the body's fuel, and release that energy as heat - a mechanism that newborns, fresh from the warm confines of the womb, rely on to keep them toasty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Brown Fat: A Fat That Helps You Lose Weight? | 4/8/2009 | See Source »

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