A team of Australian scientists has shown that brown fat -- a special type of fat that burns energy to produce heat -- may also help to keep blood sugar stable in adults. Brown or good fat may help minimise fluctuations in blood sugar (blood glucose) concentration in adults. Brown fat takes up so much glucose that we wondered whether brown fat could affect the concentration of glucose in the blood - and whether therefore brown fat-targeted therapies might help control diabetes said Paul Lee from Sydney's Garvan Institute of Medical Research. It looks like the more brown fat one