How to Use brown fat in a Sentence

brown fat

noun

• If the pot has more than a tablespoon or so of browning fat, pour the excess out.
  — Bethany Jean Clement, The Seattle Times, 14 Nov. 2018
• Working one at a time, set chops on fatty side with tongs to melt and brown fat cap, about 1 minute each.
  — Adam Rapoport, Bon Appetit, 17 Oct. 2017
• Unlike white fat, which stores calories, brown fat burns them.
  — Nancy Clanton, ajc, 21 Oct. 2021
• Other labs around the world have tried to figure out if brown fat matters in other ways.
  — Max G. Levy, Wired, 3 Jan. 2022
• What was inside the needles was a browning agent, something that converts white fat to brown fat.
  — Emily Price, Fortune, 18 Sep. 2017
• To confirm the chill, researchers used an infrared camera to track skin cooling over the brown fat area and heat loss in the animals’ tail.
  — Emily Willingham, Scientific American, 5 June 2023
• One theory behind the cold burn is that chilly weather sets brown fat in motion.
  — Dana Benbow, Indianapolis Star, 5 Jan. 2018
• When brown fat is active, the mitochondria go to work and generate heat.
  — Deborah Netburn, latimes.com, 1 May 2018
• The sedentary mice were colder than their fit counterparts, meaning that their brown fat stores couldn't quite make up the difference.
  — Nathaniel Scharping, Discover Magazine, 15 Aug. 2018
• Some studies say that exposure to cold temperatures can prompt the body to recruit more brown fat cells.
  — Alex Orlando, Discover Magazine, 25 Dec. 2019
• But there wasn’t a clear connection to brown fat activity.
  — Max G. Levy, Wired, 3 Jan. 2022
• An older lab study that looked at animal cells found that CBD could help convert white fat into brown fat, which helps burn calories.
  — Korin Miller, Women's Health, 1 Sep. 2023
• In the study, Andrews and colleagues generated a transcriptome — a collection of all the gene readouts in a tissue — for the animals’ brown fat over the course of a year.
  — Kate Gammon, Discover Magazine, 8 Apr. 2016
• White fat is what stores fat and brown fat is a kind of good, healthy fat that promotes thermogenesis (heat production).
  — Amy Synnott, Vogue, 4 Aug. 2023
• Scientists once thought that all brown fat disappears by adulthood.
  — Alex Orlando, Discover Magazine, 25 Dec. 2019
• With this, our bodies become more efficient in converting white fat into brown fat, which is easier for the body to burn for fuel.
  — Kat Hillman | Iron Monk Solutions, The Salt Lake Tribune, 6 Dec. 2022
• Cells in brown fat have an abundance of mitochondria, the powerhouse of the cellular machinery.
  — Deborah Netburn, latimes.com, 1 May 2018
• Exercise also is believed to prompt small amounts of white fat to transform into brown fat, a particularly desirable form of fat that burns a lot of calories.
  — Gretchen Reynolds, New York Times, 6 Dec. 2017
• When the participants in the study slept at 66 degrees opposed to warmer temperatures, their amount of brown fat increased, while the opposite occurred during the months their sleeping areas were warmer.
  — Redbook, 26 July 2017
• That’s because in order to generate more heat, brown fat works together with white fat—the more common form of fat that people gain with age as their metabolism slows down—and starts using it as fuel.
  — Alice Park, Time, 20 July 2023
• Sleeping in a cool room seems to increase people’s percentages of brown fat — a type of fat that acts more like muscle — according to a 2014 study conducted by Celi and colleagues at the National Institutes of Health.
  — NBC News, 27 Oct. 2017
• Another paper probes how brown fat can be leveraged to combat diabetes and obesity.
  — Alex Orlando, Discover Magazine, 25 Dec. 2019
• Your body needs brown fat to balance the body temperature in cold conditions, as brown fat regulates the temperature of your body naturally.
  — James Robinson, Discover Magazine, 14 Dec. 2022
• The other, which takes far longer, is generating heat through a chemical reaction when the body’s brown fat cells—brown adipose tissue (BAP)—breaks down blood sugar and fat molecules to generate heat.
  — Tim Newcomb, Popular Mechanics, 19 Jan. 2023
• The supplement converts your existing fat into brown fat, which works more efficiently.
  — Dallas News, 18 July 2022
• The loss led modern piggies to be poor at regulating their body temperatures and lack functional brown fat tissue, which is composed of fat cells responsible for burning energy to produce heat.
  — Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 24 Oct. 2017
• When the researchers lowered the temperature in a mouse enclosure, the oxytocin-deficient pups showed less brown fat activation, and their bodies grew significantly colder than those of normal mice.
  — Nala Rogers, Discover Magazine, 14 Feb. 2019

Last Updated: 24 Jul 2024