| When you grab a hold of your body fat on the belly, | | | | It is an advantage to gain weight, just as long as the |
| the love handles or the floppy fat under your arm | | | | gain comes from the non-fatty body mass. Increasing |
| that continues waving a minute or so after you | | | | your lean muscle mass will increase your body's |
| stopped waving, it is easy to think that it is the same | | | | energy consumption, i.e. burn fat and this helps you |
| fat that was there a couple of years ago. News | | | | keep your fat storages at appropriate levels. |
| Flash! It is not! The fat stored in fat cells is replace | | | | The number of fat cells is constant, and they strive |
| and the fat you currently are carrying is about 3 | | | | to hold a certain volume most of all they don't want |
| months old. | | | | to have too little fat in them as this will be risky |
| The fat is released from the cell, used for energy | | | | business if a starvation period would occur. You |
| and replaced with new fat. | | | | would have a small chance of surviving such an |
| If you store more fat than you use, you'll gain | | | | event. |
| weight. The fat cell does it job in an excellent way, it | | | | On the other hand, they don't want to increase too |
| is quite active and yet, it hardly uses any energy. We | | | | much either. The fat cells have to be exposed to |
| usually make a difference between lean body mass, | | | | excessive levels of fat under a long period of time in |
| that uses lots of energy, and the fat body mass, | | | | order to store large amounts of fat. |
| that uses almost no energy. | | | | |