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Beige and brown fat burn calories and could help manage obesity and diabetes

SUMMARY(练习口语的一种方法，在读完一篇文章之后，合上报纸，用自己的话将新闻内容复述一遍）

There are three types of fat in our body. White fat gathers around our waistline and organs. The main function is store energy. Brown fat burns calories to generate heat for our body and mostly clustered deep in the neck, upper torso and shoulder. Beige fat was been recognized as a transition phase from white to brown fat. However recent research shows they are three separate types of fat cells. Beige fat has the same use with brown fat.

Obese people tend to have fewer brown fat cells than their counterparts.We get a way to loss weight based on the new research: increase the number of brown fat cells. One experiment shows sleeping in a cold room expands brown fat stores. However all those gains were lost after sleeping in a warm room for one month.

Researchers also try to find a way to flick the brown fat cells switch on but only have experiments on mice. Human has huge different on how our body get warm. Mice mainly depends on brown fat and human is not.

图片来源ABC News

*spring

作名词是春天，作动词是arise within a short time. 例如 Heart disease or those couple of extra kilos you're carrying around are probably the first things to spring to mind. 可以用来替换come up with。查阅字典之后，我发现其实这个用法是很常见滴。

*bits and bobs

杂七杂八的小任务、小事件。if you count up all those bits and bobs it could be closer to a kilogram. 这是我延伸想一个谚语“Bob is your uncle” 表示小意思、很轻松就能解决的事情。

*a continuum of

连续的、持续的。There are probably a whole continuum of varying degrees of beige.