Brown fat has long carried a kind of scientific promise. Unlike the more familiar white fat that stores energy, this darker ...

Scientists have discovered that a protein called SLIT3 is essential for making the body's calorie-burning brown fat work properly.

The body breaks fat down after it runs out of another energy source, sugar.

If you thought body fat was just a passive storage depot for calories, think again. Research increasingly suggests that it plays an important role in our overall health, with two studies shedding new ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. It is often difficult to get a clear picture of your overall health, so experts rely on charts, data, and other measurements to ...

We’ll start at the very beginning: Body mass index (BMI) is a measure of someone’s weight compared to their height whereas body fat percentage is a measure of how much body fat someone has relative to ...