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- Until now, only rodents and human newborns have been known to have any significant deposits of brown fat, so called because of its abnormally high concentration of dark-colored .
- The latest is Yellow Jersey, launched in May by big French Burgundy producer Boisset, which will be distributed only in dark-colored plastic bottles--a lot lighter than glass ones .
- Rats, among other species, have a far greater capacity to cope with excess calories than we do because they have more of a dark-colored tissue called brown fat.