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Just in time for the holidays: Burnham director talks about fat

Posted by on Dec 7th, 2009 and filed under Featured, Lake Nona Med Center. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0. You can leave a response or trackback to this entry

burnham-medical-research-insA moment on the lips, forever on the hips.

That old adage about caloric overindulgence doesn’t just apply to noticeably visible parts of the body.

Scientists at the Burnham Institute for Medical Research at Lake Nona are looking at ways fat is deposited in and around the heart to find new ways to treat diabetes and its heart-related complications.

In a lecture Wednesday, Burnham’s scientific director Daniel P. Kelly explained how the body processes fat overload, and how his lab is working to find new treatments for heart disease associated with too much fat.

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