A Little Lesson about Fat

I consider myself a life learner, and I don't believe anything anyone says until I've researched it myself. When it comes to fitness and dieting, the best results come after really understanding how your body works.

For the last week, I have really wondered what fat is. After all, if I can conquer the definition, shouldn't I be able to kick this flabby stuff? Maybe.

I've know for a long, long time that you can increase the size of a fat cell, and shrink it, but you can't get rid of it. So are we all born with the same amount of fat cells? Can we get more fat cells? I have so many questions... and I knew Wikipedia would be my best source for an answer.

Here's a small amount I gathered after reading about White Adipose Tissue:

We have two types of fat on our bodies, brown and white. The latter being the one we all despise. There is an average amount of fat cells on the human body, but they can be different sizes. The scariest part of all, they can increase in size (up to 4x) and then they will divide and increase the number of fat cells!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adipocyte

So there's my little tid bit of information for the day. Hopefully this will help scare us away from ever gaining too much fat, since we cannot get rid of the cells we gain.