India, June 26 -- In a recent Scientific Report published by Nature Journal, a research team from the University of Nottingham and the UCLA School of Medicine discovered that the caffeine in coffee has a direct effect on brown fat activity in humans.

Brown Adipose Tissue (BAT), more commonly referred to as brown fat, is a unique variation of fat cells found in the human body, which was proved to have an increasingly positive correlation with energy metabolism in a study published in the Oxford Academic Journal in 2013.

Brown fat, as opposed to the calorie-containing white fat, produces heat and increases energy consumption in the body, the study showed. This opens up a world of possibilities in the treatment of Obesity and other metabol...