Aging people, he noted, lose muscle and put on fat, their skin thins and their bones weaken.
The brief exposure programmed the mouse to put on fat, and although there were no significant differences in caloric intake or expenditure, it continued to put on flab long after the chemical was gone.
Q. Does the body put on fat in actual layers, or does fat I accumulate now mix with body fat I've had for years? A. "Fat is deposited diffusely and not in layers," said Louis J. Aronne, director of the comprehensive weight control center at NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center.
In the opposite corner we have Gary Taubes, the science journalist who has thrown in his lot with the high-fat, high-protein crowd, arguing in his new book that the overweight should just put down their apples and walk away: "If we're predisposed to put on fat, it's a good bet that most fruit will make the problem worse, not better".
When bears put on fat in summer, they host different kinds of gut bacteria than when they burn fat in winter.
Bears put on fat and grow winter fur coats.
We evolved to put on fat wherever necessary, and that was a good thing in human history.
"It not only puts on fat for the long swim, but a lot of muscle structure; just look at it on the plate.
A person whose metabolism had been programmed to deal with its mother's poor diet, for example, would be overwhelmed by a plentiful childhood diet, and put on fat rather than acquire muscle mass.
But they put on fat when they get an infusion of human intestinal bacteria.
