Exercise releases a hormone that helps the body remove fat and keep it off. The hormone irisin converts white fat, which is considered bad fat or fat that can be harmful, to brown fat a fat that has beneficial health benefits. White fat stores calories, brown fat burns energy. The study was published in the American Journal of Physiology, Endocrinology, and Metabolism. Knowing that the body produces small amounts of irisin while the body is exercising reinforces the idea that exercise is a form of medicine. This fat reduction mechanism helps to reduce the affects of diabetes and other chronic diseases that are associated with obesity. So get your daily dose of irisin through exercise and realize the fat reducing benefits and resulting better health. Just another reason to get off the couch and get moving.
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