World Wide Web | Skin Apple Can Prevent Obesity | Apple skin has benefits to reduce the fat in the body. Thus, the skin of the apple is very suitable to be consumed by people who are dieting to prevent obesity. Study by the University of Iowa.
Apple skin contains a waxy substance called ursolic acid. It helps the body to increase muscle and brown fat. Brown fat is the fat that is owned by infants and disappears when the age of the child. As quoted by the Times of India, brown fat plays a role in reducing obesity levels, healthy blood sugar and blood lipids. Researchers believe brown fat can prevent obesity and diabetes.
The amount of brown fat in adults is very limited. Some adults are able to maintain these fats, usually found on the neck and between the shoulder blades.
In this study, researchers tested the mice. When the rats were supplemented with ursolic acid, they burn more calories. The risk of obesity, prediabetes, and fatty liver disease decreased compared with mice that did not receive supplements. In fact, the content in the apple skin of mice avoid some harmful effects.
"Because muscle is very good at burning calories, increasing muscle on treatment with ursolic acid may be sufficient to explain how ursolic acid can reduce obesity. However, we were surprised to find that ursolat acid also increases brown fat, a fantastic calorie burner. Increased brown fat also helps protect against childhood obesity, "said Adams, a researcher in the study.
"Ursolic acid increases skeletal muscle. Interestingly
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