Things to Know About Fat Cells

You may worry about fat whether it is a concern with your general health or just sheer aesthetics, as a result you restrict your diet and do the exercise to get rid of the bulges of fat. But have you ever wondered what fat is? When you “get fat” = you “gain weight” but what is actually happening inside your body?

Fat cells are formed during the third trimester of pregnancy and during puberty, and are influenced by the sex hormones but everyone is born with a particular number of fat cells. The development of fat cells and their distribution are all the same in male and females until puberty when hormones change their bodily distributions. After puberty, fat cells do not generally form and their number remains fairly stable for the rest of the life. Fat tissue is made up of fat cells, which are a unique type of cell. To understand this, you can think of a fat cell as a tiny plastic bag that holds a drop of fat.

Fat has a seemingly infinite capacity to make more of itself as fat cells can get bigger with weight gain or with weight loss those same fat cells can get smaller. One may get heavier or get bigger in certain body areas because fat cells gets bigger taking on excess calories. Too much body fat can act like a poison contributing to life threatening health conditions like diabetes, heart disease, high blood pressure, stroke and other illnesses, including some cancers.