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**LianneForbess** · 04-04-2006, 07:00 AM

Here's some interesting facts:

You can only get fat in parts the parts of your body that have fat cells. If you have lypo suction to remove those cells, you will never get fat there again.

The difference in fat location comes from the sex hormones estrogen and testosterone.

Fat cells are formed in the developing fetus during the third trimester of pregnancy, and later at the onset of puberty, when the sex hormones "kick in." It is during puberty that the differences in fat distribution between men and women begin to take form.

One amazing fact is that fat cells do not multiply after puberty -- as your body stores more fat, the number of fat cells remains the same. Each fat cell simply gets bigger!

Other sources I've read state that the number of fat cells can increase when a significant amount of weight is gained (50-70 pounds). Once increased, they cannot be lost.

So, pretty much, puberty is the critical time for developing fat cells. Now, I wonder if we have control over how many fat cells we develop over that time ??

04-04-2006, 07:00 AM	#12
LianneForbess Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 528 Senior Member	Here's some interesting facts: You can only get fat in parts the parts of your body that have fat cells. If you have lypo suction to remove those cells, you will never get fat there again. The difference in fat location comes from the sex hormones estrogen and testosterone. Fat cells are formed in the developing fetus during the third trimester of pregnancy, and later at the onset of puberty, when the sex hormones "kick in." It is during puberty that the differences in fat distribution between men and women begin to take form. One amazing fact is that fat cells do not multiply after puberty -- as your body stores more fat, the number of fat cells remains the same. Each fat cell simply gets bigger! Other sources I've read state that the number of fat cells can increase when a significant amount of weight is gained (50-70 pounds). Once increased, they cannot be lost. So, pretty much, puberty is the critical time for developing fat cells. Now, I wonder if we have control over how many fat cells we develop over that time ??
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