Socialising enhances fat conversion and loss in mice

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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-14813485

A socially active lifestyle can dramatically speed up weight loss through the burning of fat in mice, a study shows.

Researchers at Ohio State University in the US identified a link between the amount of social interaction in a mouse's environment and its weight.

Obesity in people worldwide is becoming a major health and economic problem; this new understanding, published in Cell Metabolism, could pave the way for socially-based therapeutic strategies to tackle it.

Fat can come in two types: energy-storing white fat, and energy-burning brown fat.

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1. So too can having a cold bath in the mornings. It activates your brown fat and you burn

fat all day.

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2. LOL! -- i'd rather socialize! nt

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3. I know. I've thought many a time of having a cold bath just to see if it works but I cannot make

myself.