Fat is Neither Created or Destroyed

Almost everyone has battle with a little bulge in their figure. Regardless of the mechanism chosen to slim down, the basic goal has always been to lose the fat. New research has made a discovery that may explain why it seems so hard to lose that fat – it’s permanent! Essentially, the quantity of fat cells for a given person is fixed. While the cells themselves do die off, they are replaced by an identical number of new fat cells. Even after patients undergo liposuction, the fat cells will grow back to their original number. The appearance of bulge, therefore, is not a function of having too many fat cells but a function of how full those fat cells are. Such a discovery has led researchers to seek a way to alter the number of available fat cells.