EXERCISE NEWS: Exercise Hormone May Fight Obesity and Diabetes. “A newly discovered hormone produced in response to exercise may be turning people’s white fat brown, a groundbreaking new study suggests, and in the process lessening their susceptibility to obesity, diabetes and other health problems. The study, published on Wednesday in Nature and led by researchers at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard Medical School, provides remarkable new insights into how exercise affects the body at a cellular level.”

I hope this pans out, but some people are skeptical. “This study confirms what the experts— and many promoters of the healthy-looking lifestyle — dearly want to believe.”