Fat cells can get hold of and in adulthood

01 August 2017, 02:45 | Health
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Convinced the slender volunteers to lean for some time on sweets, scientists denied the long-standing idea that adults do not have fat cells.

It turned out that as the weight was gaining weight on the hips, the participants formed new fat cells, while on the stomachs - the available. "This overturns the dogma that in adults, new fat cells do not appear, and the" old "cells increase in size," says Dr. Michael Jensen from the Mayo Clinic in Rochester (Minnesota, USA).

"Having figured out why fat cells form in one part of the body and not in the other, we, perhaps, will understand why the accumulation of fat in the abdomen carries more risk to health than the fat deposits in the lower part of the body," he adds..

To participate in the study, Dr. Jensen and his colleagues invited 28 healthy volunteers of both sexes. Within 2 months, all subjects had to deliberately overeat during controlled meals. At the same time from time to time, scientists took samples of fat participants for research.

To stimulate weight gain, participants had to absorb milk shakes, chocolate and energy drinks.

For two months they have accumulated about 2 kg of fat in the upper body and about 1.5 kg - on the hips and buttocks. At the same time, the study showed that 2.6 billion. New fat cells.

There were also surprises: "We thought that women would accumulate fat mainly on their hips, but it was evenly distributed over the upper and lower parts of the trunk," notes Dr. Jensen.

At the end of the study, its participants quickly dropped the weight gain.

"If you take healthy people with normal weight and start overfeeding them, then, as soon as overeating stops, all the fat you have collected will literally dissolve in the air," he says.. "Most of us do not break up so easily with extra pounds, but they were people who never had problems with being overweight".

The next step, according to Dr. Jensen's plan, will be to find out which genetic and external factors make possible the proliferation of fat cells on the hips in adults.

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