University researchers in London are warning that indoor heating might make you fat.  They claim that modern society reduces exposure to cold, and that minimizes the need for the body to burn fat to stay warm. They found that people who spend more time in warm temps. may lose brown fat, the type that burns energy to produce heat, and pack on fat that just makes you obese. 

- Another tragic consequence of global warming!

- It’s bad enough to have all this belly fat, now I find out it’s the wrong color!

- Who knew Kirstie Alley was housebound?  

- Big Al’s dream is to stay in his house eating long enough until Richard Simmons has to show up with a backhoe to get him out.

 

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