There’s a race going on to find treatments for obesity and related diseases, such as heart disease, diabetes and cancer. Researchers at the University of East Anglia and the University of Cambridge are at the head of it.
We have two kinds of fat in the body, brown, or “good” fat because it burns calories, and white which stores calories. Too much white fat leads to obesity.
The UK universities collaborated with the University of Pennsylvania and Free University of Brussels to discover the structure of a protein known as Uncoupling Protein 1 (UCP1), which bumps up the amount of calories brown fat burns off.
