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What Elephant in the Room?

The annual “F as in Fat” report is out. The Trust for America’s Health and Robert Wood Johnson Foundation warn that adult obesity rates are on the rise in 28 US states and declined only in Washington, DC. You can find the full report here. The statistics are alarming. 38 of the 50 states have adult [...]

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Fat

“We now readily accept adipose tissue as a key endocrine organ regulating processes throughout the body with its significant number of adipocyte secretions,” boasts William T. Cefalu, corresponding author of the article in Fractalkine in diabetes this week. We once thought of adipose tissue, more commonly known as fat, as a dynamic reserve of long-term energy storage. Now we say [...]

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“We now readily accept adipose tissue as a key endocrine organ regulating processes throughout

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“We now readily accept adipose tissue as a key endocrine organ regulating processes throughout

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