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Re: Do calories count?
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Hilary McClure <[log in to unmask]>
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Sat, 5 Oct 2002 22:32:31 -0400
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Elizabeth Miller wrote:
>
> In a message dated 10/4/02 9:05:25 AM, [log in to unmask] writes:
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> > But
> >
> >the practical significance of calories is this: No matter what the
> >
> >macronutrient composition of the diet, it is still possible that one is
> >
> >eating too much, and that is preventing weight loss.
>
> I am reading a book called Body Heat by Mark Blumberg. He talks about
> research on Diet Induced Thermogenesis, the phenomenon that's supposed to
> keep us from obesity. Overeating induces DIT according to the research; the
> body supposedly 'wastes' the extra calories via brown adipose tissue (BAT).
> Studies on rats...

What I've read is that adult humans don't have brown adipose tissue.
Only newborns. Does Blumberg disagree?

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