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Posted on Dec 29th 2008 2:00PM by Jacki Donaldson
- You're more likely to inherit obesity than schizophrenia, high blood pressure and alcoholism.
Regularly eat breakfast or dinner in restaurants? Watch out -- you're doubling your risk of becoming obese. - Cutting saturated fat intake to the recommended 10 percent of your calories will prolong your life -- but only by a few months.
- The brain is about 70 percent fat.
- California was the only state not getting fatter, as of 2007.
- Adults should eat between 2,000 and 3,000 calories per day. But U.S agriculture produces 3,900 calories of food per day per inhabitant.
- Liposuction is the only way to reduce the number of fat cells in your body. Diet and exercise only shrink them.
- Lipo may make you look better, but it won't remove fat from around your internal organs, so your fat-related health risks do not change.
- The total number of fat cells in your body remains constant once you reach adulthood. Even after radical weight-loss surgery, fat cells return to their pre-surgery numbers within two years.
- One man used his liposuctioned fat to power the world's fastest eco-boat.
- About 10 percent of a person's fat cells die over the course of one year. But the body quickly replaces them.
- Fifty-billion dollars is spent on diet programs every year.
- People who lose just 10 percent of their body weight report better sex lives.
- Being overweight reduces a woman's chances of becoming pregnant.
- Obesity is one reason the fastest-growing group of women experiencing infertility is under 25.
- Biology is trying to help us trim down -- the hormone leptin is pumped into our bloodstream by fat cells. The more fat you have, the more leptin you make, the less hungry you feel.
- Leptin never could be bottled as a diet aid, because most overweight people have become insensitive to it.
- Bottlenose dophins use fatty tissue in the head to focus sound waves -- it gives them their sonar ability.
- Whales are wrapped in fat -- it's vital for insulation and is sometimes up to 20 inches in thickness.
- Camel's don't need insulation -- they trap their fat in their humps to keep it out of the way.
One would assume this is all pretty factual stuff. I mean, it does come from a scientific magazine. What do you think? Do you dispute any of these fatty facts?
