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Number of fat cells remains constant in all body types

post from Science Blog - Send lawyers, guns and money on 09 May 2008 12:39:51 PM. © Science Blog - Send lawyers, guns and money

The radioactive carbon-14 produced by above-ground nuclear testing in the 1950s and ?60s has helped researchers determine that the number of fat cells in a human?s body, whether lean or obese, is established during the teenage years. Changes in fat mass in adulthood can be attributed mainly to changes in fat cell volume, not an increase in the actual number of fat cells.

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