It’s easy to think of fat as just inert tissue - useless blubber just sitting there on our hips taking up space…way too much space. On the contrary fat is smart. It is considered by many scientists to be an organ in and of itself - a hotbed of chemical communicators and the proprietor of a prominent metabolic thermostat known as leptin.
New research out of Temple University is showing that fat in obese patients is “sick” when compared to fat in lean patients. Here are the specifics:
