Most of the fat we carry is white adipose tissue, the body’s primary energy-storage system, designed to stockpile excess ...

Natural torpidity, problems, and perspectives / Charles P. Lyman -- Circannual cycles in hibernators / N. Mrosovsky -- Shallow, daily torpor: a thermoregulatory adaptation / Jack W. Hudson -- ...

Newly reported research in human tissue and in mice has uncovered a mechanism by which brown fat (brown adipose tissue; BAT) is converted into heat, and identified a control protein that may represent ...

As temperatures drop, many people find their appetites increasing. But does our body really need more energy in freezing temperatures, or is winter hunger just a myth? FITBOOK author Nina Ponath asked ...