Twenty is a time when a person is on the threshold of adulthood and should be a period where the body has more or less settled into a natural shape and rhythm. But if the new study on fat is anything to go by, 20 could just symbolize a prolonging of teenage growing up pangs.
The study conducted by the team at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California found that the fat cells present in the body since birth are more or less the fixed number of cells that see us till the end of our days.
The eating habits and exercise followed by children were also found to affect the level of obesity or lack of it in adults.
While this could be good news for genetically thin children, it could be terrible for chubby ones. Researchers suggest that obesity control should begin from a young age so that by twenty, the person is left with a controlled number of fat cells.
It’s still a work in progress though and while I wonder about the effects it could have on children, I am left hoping that it turns out to be a better option than liposuction for young teens.
Liposuction procedures when performed on young adults as a way to control obesity has been performed successfully by plastic surgeons but is viewed as more of a last resort. Here’s hoping studies like these throw some more light on fat control.
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