'Switch' in brain of obese people stays on all the time, researchers say

Study focuses on mechanism that controls ability to coordinate feeding with burning energy and fasting with storing it

Obese people aren't able to regulate the way body fat is stored or burned because a "switch" in their brain stays on all the time, a new study by Australian researchers has shown.

Specialised fat cells called adipocytes are switched back and forth from brown cells, which are energy burning, to white, which store energy.