Hey I read an article yesterday from msn.com that was saying that when you reach adulthood, the number of fat cells in your body stays the same. You can lose weight and reduce the size of those fat cells but the only way to reduce the actual number of fat cell is via liposuction. What are your thoughts on this?
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number of fat cells and weight loss
- Thread starter jaoust
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It's not so bad
Well, it is true. Your body must have fat cells to pad your organs, "grease your engine" so to speak, and act as a defense mechanism. Your body has a pre-determined number of those cells and at a healthy weight they are normal size. If you overeat, your body stores extra calories in those fat cells and they grow larger. Eat less, and they shrink. Liposuction is not an effective way to lose weight, and it is not an alternative to dieting and exercising. Even though your fat count gets smaller, your body will continue to store fat in your remaining cells.
Krista
Well, it is true. Your body must have fat cells to pad your organs, "grease your engine" so to speak, and act as a defense mechanism. Your body has a pre-determined number of those cells and at a healthy weight they are normal size. If you overeat, your body stores extra calories in those fat cells and they grow larger. Eat less, and they shrink. Liposuction is not an effective way to lose weight, and it is not an alternative to dieting and exercising. Even though your fat count gets smaller, your body will continue to store fat in your remaining cells.
Krista
So what do you think when they say some people are fat due to genetics? Fat parents give birth to fat kids. Do you think there is some truth to that?
So what do you think when they say some people are fat due to genetics? Fat parents give birth to fat kids. Do you think there is some truth to that?
Genetics is involved, yes, but to what degree I don't know. Some people have rare disorders where hormone hunger signaling is screwed up, this serious genetic stuff doesn't even come close to significantly contributing to the huge amount of obese people in the world today.
And about fat parents with fat kids: the parents are probably fat because they have bad eating habbits, their kids adopt those habbits and become fat too.