Evaporative cooling provides a major metabolic energy sink

• Main Authors: Ildiko Kasza (Author), Doug Adler (Author), David W. Nelson (Author), C.-L. Eric Yen (Author), Sabrina Dumas (Author), James M. Ntambi (Author), Ormond A. MacDougald (Author), Diego Hernando (Author), Warren P. Porter (Author), Fred A. Best (Author), C.M. Alexander (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Elsevier, 2019-09-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Objective: Elimination of food calories as heat could help redress the excess accumulation of metabolic energy exhibited as obesity. Prior studies have focused on the induction of thermogenesis in beige and brown adipose tissues as the application of this principle, particularly because the β-adrene...