Elizabeth Miller wrote:
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> In a message dated 10/4/02 9:05:25 AM, [log in to unmask] writes:
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> > But
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> >the practical significance of calories is this: No matter what the
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> >macronutrient composition of the diet, it is still possible that one is
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> >eating too much, and that is preventing weight loss.
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> 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?