BIOSC-139 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Tight Junction, Desmosome, Liposuction
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Key places of adipose all over the body. Adipose anchors kidneys to posterior body wall (fig 27. 2) Too much fat the problem is that you add miles of blood vessels that your heart has to pump blood through; adipose is highly vascularized. Typical individual has 60000 miles blood vessels that heart has to pump blood through [[60000 miles is about more than twice the circumference of the earth]] For every pound of excess fat 1 mile added of capillaries [[gestimate]] Most diets are harmful because body needs a balanced diet certain amounts of lipids, nucleic acids, minerals, electrolytes, proteins, carbohydrates, water, etc. When you diet the fat cells are emptied out but they didn"t go anywhere. If body is deprived of components can be bad. Need to exercise in order for fat cells to die. If you don"t exercise and stay on your diet, you fill your fat cells up again cells didn"t die and go anywhere.