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		anonymous on July 31, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: A year without food (2012) > Once you make fat cells, they never ever go away. Well, that's pretty depressing. Maybe the next big thing in combating obesity would be finding some mechanism to get rid of extra fat cells?

beagle3 on July 31, 2013 [–]

Seems like you can make them look for fat and burn it. Google "brown fat". It seems that cold exposure activates this mechanism.

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