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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? It's a loose form os tissue (skin) thats has a goal of storing energy in the form of fat as well as creating insulation for heat for the body. With out this, the body would not be able to hold in heat or be able to store any energy at all. (2) Define epidemic. is a disease that infects a human population at any givin time, and the result has to be a bigger turnout than expected (3) Define obesity. this is what happens when you are overweight, this can result in many types of sickness that cause a person. It occures from overeating, and doing it frequetenly and is a thing to due with energy balance. (4) How could we have an obesity epidemic? If everyone overate conistantly, it would throw off their energy balance in their body, causing a huge obesity epidemic. (5) What are the main obesity related illnesses? Heart disease, diabeties type 2, and high blood pressure are some of the related illnises (6) How does the liver protect the body from alcohol? The liver tries to put your body through detox, and filters out all of the alchol. If you drink a lot, overtime it can wear down your liver to where it can't do it's job and you can die. This acts like an air filter in your house, it picks up all of the junk out. (7) Where does excess energy go? Excess energy becomes stored in the body in lipids Lipids are a source of quick energy that are used in the process of storing and using quick bits of energy. Without these quick sources of energy the body wouldn't be able to live for the most part. (8) Why do we have so much excess energy in our diet? This is due to the fact that people consume more food than they need. Food is where our energy gets pulled from, fo when you over eat you are putting in a ton of energy into your body that can't be burned off. (9) If we didn't have adipose tissue where could we put the excess energy? Is this OK? You wouldn't really be able to store energy in a place that would be safe to your body. You could put energy in lipids again, but that could only work for a certain amount of energy. (9) Humans have much more body fat than our closest relatives the chimpanzees. What is a possible evolutionary reason for this? We are a lot bigger than chimpanzees, they on average are only 3 or 4 feet tall, where as humans on average a foot to a foot an a half taller. Height can play a key role in determining how much body fat your body has (10) Adipocytes (Fat cells) are filled with fat called triglycerides. Describe the triglyceride structure and why it contains so much energy. This contains three fatty acids, and is widley known for being the main contributer in vegtible oil and animal fats. Both of these things contain a very large amount of fat in them. (11) What happens to adipocytes when we gain weight? (a lot of weight) When we gain weight we strecth out these adipocytes, and cause them to have a lot of strain. They end up having to work twice as hard, because you are getting fatter and lead to obesity getting worse. (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? They release the hormoned: adiponectin, resistin, angiotensin, plasminogen activarot inhibitor, TNFa, IL-6, leptin, and estradiol