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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?

(2) Define epidemic. (3) Define obesity.
 * fat cells
 * outbreak of disease in a region

(4) How could we have an obesity epidemic?
 * Obesity is an abnormal accumulation of body fat, usually 20% or more over an individual's ideal body weight. It is associated with increased risk of illness, disability, and death.

(5) What are the main obesity related illnesses?
 * Everyone starts to gain weight so that the whole population is overweight/ obese

(6) How does the liver protect the body from alcohol?
 * type II diabetes, hyperlipidemia, high cholesterol, coronary artery disease, degenerative joint disease and psychosocial disability. Certain cancers - colon, rectum and prostate in men; uterus, biliary tract, breast and ovary in women - are more prevalent in the obese.

(7) Where does excess energy go?
 * the liver takes the toxins (alcohol) out of the body.

(8) Why do we have so much excess energy in our diet?
 * into the adipose tissue

(9) If we didn't have adipose tissue where could we put the excess energy? Is this OK?
 * we eat too much fat and sugar in our diets

(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
 * we would store it in our organs. this isn't ok because then our organs would be fatty and wouldnt work how they are supposed to.