Study finds vitamin triggers body to create special calorie-burning fat - SlashGear

Specifically, researchers with the Medical University of Vienna have found that vitamin A plays an important role during the cold winter months to help the body convert ordinary white fat into calorie-burning brown fat as a way to help keep someone warm.

This latest study finds how the body creates the brown fat to help protect the body from cold weather, noting that such cold conditions cause vitamin A levels to increase in both mice and humans.

The increase in vitamin A levels aids the conversion process from energy-storing white fat to energy-burning brown fat, increasing heat production while reducing body fat.

Most vitamin A is stored in the liver; cold weather appears to simply trigger the body to redistribute it into fat tissue, stimulating the conversion to brown fat.