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Increasing the Body's Brown Fat Could Be a Weight Loss

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Increasing the body's brown fat could be a weight loss method because brown fat mitochondria waste energy instead of creating usable energy.What is the mechanism for this waste in brown fat?


A) UCP1 in brown fat uncouples the electron transport chain from ATP synthesis.
B) Brown fat bypasses the process of glycolysis.
C) Brown fat is less efficient than white fat and causes shivering.
D) Hydrogen ions leak across the cell's plasma membrane in white fat.
E) Cytochrome reductase activity decreases in brown fat in response to respiration.

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