{"id":106987,"date":"2017-09-21T09:03:09","date_gmt":"2017-09-21T03:33:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/?p=106987"},"modified":"2017-09-21T09:03:09","modified_gmt":"2017-09-21T03:33:09","slug":"bad-fat-can-removed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/bad-fat-can-removed\/","title":{"rendered":"Bad fat can be removed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Bad fat\u201d could be made to turn over a new leaf and combat obesity by blocking a specific protein, scientists have discovered.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Most fat in the body is unhealthy \u201cwhite\u201d tissue deposited around the waist, hips and thighs. But smaller amounts of energy-hungry \u201cbrown\u201d fat are also found around the neck and shoulders. Brown fat generates heat by burning up excess calories.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Now scientists experimenting on lab mice have found a way to transform white fat into \u201cbeige\u201d fat \u2013 a healthier halfway stage also capable of reducing weight gain.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Beige fat was discovered in adults in 2015 and shown to function in a similar way to brown fat. Lodhi\u2019s team found that blocking a protein called PexRAP caused white fat in mice to be converted to beige fat that burned calories.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bad fat\u201d could be made to turn over a new leaf and combat obesity by blocking a specific protein, scientists have discovered. Most fat in the body is unhealthy \u201cwhite\u201d tissue deposited around the waist, hips and thighs. But smaller amounts of energy-hungry \u201cbrown\u201d fat are also found around the neck and shoulders. Brown fat [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":106988,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[29598,2],"tags":[33833,54321,54322,54323,4169],"class_list":["post-106987","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health","category-top-stories","tag-bad","tag-brown","tag-pexrap","tag-scientists"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/e2-10.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106987","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106987"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106987\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/106988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}