Post by swmtnbackpacker on Oct 3, 2018 6:43:39 GMT -8
Not all fat is bad of course, but this gave me pause...
Until fairly recently, fat was thought to be inert, evolution’s wobbly way of letting humans store energy for lean times. And we’ve long known that it’s better to be slightly overweight than underweight, as a recent study in the Journal of the American Medical Association reiterates.
Starting in the 1990s, though, scientists began to realize that fat is best understood as a single huge endocrine gland, one that wields powerful influence over the rest of the body. “For a typical North American, their fat tissue is their biggest organ,” says James Kirkland, M.D.,
www.outsideonline.com/1914196/your-fat-has-brain-seriously-and-its-trying-kill-you?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=facebookpost
Until fairly recently, fat was thought to be inert, evolution’s wobbly way of letting humans store energy for lean times. And we’ve long known that it’s better to be slightly overweight than underweight, as a recent study in the Journal of the American Medical Association reiterates.
Starting in the 1990s, though, scientists began to realize that fat is best understood as a single huge endocrine gland, one that wields powerful influence over the rest of the body. “For a typical North American, their fat tissue is their biggest organ,” says James Kirkland, M.D.,
www.outsideonline.com/1914196/your-fat-has-brain-seriously-and-its-trying-kill-you?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=facebookpost
