Biology Note

Our cell membranes contain molecules, called phospholipids, that seem to have structural similarities to triglycerides (see Figure 5.1). Li...

While most of the fat tissue in an adult’s body is somewhat pale (white adipose tissue), infants tend to have a fair amount of brown adipos...

Subcutaneous fat not only helps protect skeletal muscle from trauma but it also helps conserve our body heat. This is because fat tissue is...

Fat tissue provides some protection to various tissues in the body. For instance, fat tissue around our internal organs provides some cushi...

For a long time fat tissue and their cells were viewed as somewhat inert containers of energy storage. However, today we know that adipose ...

We are not born with a full complement of fat cells as some scientists once thought. The number of fat cells in the body increases at vario...

Storing excess energy as fat rather than as protein or carbohydrate has great advantages. First, we are able to store more than twice the a...