'Good Fat' Most Prevalent in Thin Children

Children under attack.

Researchers at Joslin Diabetes Center and Children's Hospital Boston have shown that a type of "good" fat known as brown fat occurs in varying amounts in children -- increasing until puberty and then declining -- and is most active in leaner children.

The study used PET imaging data to document children's amounts and activity of brown fat, which, unlike white fat, burns energy instead of storing it. Results were published in The Journal of Pediatrics.

"Increasing the amount of brown fat in children may be an effective approach at combating the ever increasing rate of obesity and diabetes in children," said Aaron Cypess, MD, PhD, an assistant investigator and staff physician at Joslin and senior author of the paper.

If you think that the same people who cannot cure toenail fungus will be able to selectively and without harm alter the amount of brown fat in a kid's body, you are an idiot.

Just be a responsible parent and cut your fat kid's Calorie intake.