Telstra has revealed the addition of almost one million new mobile services in the six months to December 2011, but Sensis revenues plummeted 24 percent in 12 months.
The Spalding team found that humans considered obese (extremely overweight) have approximately twice the number of fat cells as normally weight people.
Plus, each fat cell in an obese adult is bigger than the average size of a fat cell in an adult with average weight.
How the Results May Help Treat Obesity
The result of the Swedish research was written up on May 4, 2008, in an online version of the journal Nature.
Arner states, “The results may, at least in part, explain why it is so difficult to maintain the weight after slimming. The new fat cells generated during and after weight reduction need to fill up their lipids rapidly.'' [Bloomberg: “Fat Cells Renewed Yearly in Process That May Lead to Treatment"]
The findings by the Swedish team may one day help to find a way, possibly through drug treatment, to counter obesity.
Such treatment may either stop, or at least minimize, the process of adding new fat cells when old fat cells die off.
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