Fat-CMP

=Fat is Good?=

**Fat is doing us a favor...You may need to look up some of the answers on the internet or your book.**
It is fat. An epidemic is defined as: "affecting many persons at the same time, and spreading from person to person in a locality where the disease is not permanently prevalent." (dictionary.com) Obesity is defined as: "very fat or overweight; corpulent." (dictionary.com) As we are developing more ways to make foods, they are becoming less healthy and more people are consuming them. Diabetes, heart disease, and high blood pressure are main obesity-related illnesses. One of the main purposes of the liver is to detoxify the body, including alcohol that is put into it. It goes to the adipose tissue (fat). Most diets consist of too many calories, which are unnecessary for the body and cause extra energy. If there was no adipose tissue in the body, the energy would be transfered to the liver, causing it so swell and them fail. Humans hold more fat than chimpanzees do. Triglycerides are lipids, made up of fatty-acid chains containing carbon and hydrogen. When a person gains an excessive amount of weight, the adipocytes in the body divide and create more lipids. Leptin is made when adipocytes release, and they tell the brain to set the gonadal hormones into action.
 * (1) Liposuction suctions out adipose tissue. What is adipose tissue?**
 * (2) Define epidemic.**
 * (3) Define obesity.**
 * (4) How could we have an obesity epidemic?**
 * (5) What are the main obesity related illnesses?**
 * (6) How does the liver protect the body from alcohol?**
 * (7) Where does excess energy go?**
 * (8) Why do we have so much excess energy in our diet?**
 * (9) If we didn't have adipose tissue where could we put the excess energy? Is this OK?**
 * (9) Humans have much more body fat than our closest relatives the chimpanzees. What is a possible evolutionary reason for this?**
 * (10) Adipocytes (Fat cells) are filled with fat called triglycerides. Describe the triglyceride structure and why it contains so much energy.**
 * (11) What happens to adipocytes when we gain weight? (a lot of weight)**
 * (12) Adipose tissue can be an endocrine gland too. Which hormone do adipocytes release, and how does this signal the body that it is time for puberty?**