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Anonymous
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Everyone has adipose tissue. It's just a matter of how much fat the cells in that tissue are storing. Adipose is found around major organs, between joints and in the hypodermis of your skin.
The problem with adipose tissue is that it never goes away. Everyone has a set amount of it from birth, but when you get really fat, you make more of it and eventually your skin becomes disfigured (stretchmarks) to compensate for the extra adipose. When you burn the fat in adipose tissue cells, the cells do not go away, they only get smaller because the fat was removed. This where that infamous "loose" or "extra" skin comes from, but it isn't actually skin, it's ADIPOSE that gives former fat people that "loose skin" problem because adipose never goes away, it can only shrink smaller.
>>355247
True enough. Fat works more like kevlar. It's jiggly, so it disperses the energy of blunt blows very well, whereas muscle would be more like hard plating. The most important role of fat, though, is providing energy and keeping you warm. Fat is a very poor conductor of heat, which means the more fat you have, the less heat is going to escape your body because fat does not conduct it well.
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