Fat cells in bone behave in a weird way SPL
There is a distinct type of fat in our bones that doesn鈥檛 act like fat at all. These peculiar fat cells, or adipocytes, grow larger, not smaller, when we starve.
鈥淭hey are fake adipocytes,鈥 says cancer researcher Catherine Muller at the University of Toulouse, France. 鈥淭hey look like adipocytes but they don鈥檛 have the main function of adipocytes.鈥
The main function of fat is to store energy and release it when needed, says Muller. This is what most of the fat in our bodies – found under…
