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Fat is doing us a favor...You may need to look up some of the answers on the internet or your book. (1) Liposuction suctions out adipose tissue. What is adipose tissue? IS another word for fat. Its in thighs, bellies, buttocks, jowls and man-breast

(2) Define epidemic. is a disease that appears as new cases in population.

(3) Define obesity. Its an issue of energy balance. When people eat to many calories and have extreme weight gain.

(4) How could we have an obesity epidemic? We pretty much already have one from all the fast food restaurants and our Western diet. We already have labels telling us toeat all low fat food and we try to take away fat from our diet and when we do that we eat more carbs to make up for the fat that we dont eat.

(5) What are the main obesity related illnesses? diabetes, high blood pressure, heart disease

(6) How does the liver protect the body from alcohol? It cleans the blood and removes the toxins.

(7) Where does excess energy go? "put excess energy somehwere else" adipose tissue

(8) Why do we have so much excess energy in our diet? Because we dont have a balance diet

(9) If we didn't have adipose tissue where could we put the excess energy? Is this OK? If we didnt have adipose tissue the excess energy would go to the liver

(9) Humans have much more body fat than our closest relatives the chimpanzees. What is a possible evolutionary reason for this? The reason that humans have more bod fat is because we are more knowledgeable about the food we eat.We aslo have access to foods that are bad for us and chimps only live off the good food such as plants and bananas

(10) Adipocytes (Fat cells) are filled with fat called triglycerides. Describe the triglyceride structure and why it contains so much energy. There are three fatty acid chain made of carbons and hydrogens arranged in high energy configuration

(11) What happens to adipocytes when we gain weight? (a lot of weight) existing fat cells growing and shrinking, absorbing and releasing energy-rich lipids as needed fat cells will initiate cell division to augment the supply; and because fat cells, like muscle cells, rarely turn over and die, those new lipidinous recruits will be your helpmeets for life the fat tissue starts releasing potent inflammatory hormone

(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? The hormone adipocytes releases is leptin an organ such as the thyroid or pancreas, secretes hormones to shape the behavior of other tissues far and wide. a girl enters puberty when her fat stores become sufficiently dense to begin releasing leptin, which signals the brain to set the pulsing axis of gonadal hormones in motion.