关于肥胖你不知道的20件事

11. The total number of fat cells in your body remains constant once you reach adulthood. Even after radical weight-loss procedures such as stomach stapling, fat cells return to their presurgery numbers within two years.
一旦成人，体内的脂肪细胞便会持续累积。哪怕你采取肠胃吻合术这样剧烈的减肥措施，两年后，脂肪也会恢复到手术前的数量。

12. Try the vacuum instead. Liposuction is the only way to actually reduce the number of fat cells in your spare tire. Diet and exercise just shrink them.
抽脂倒可以尝试。吸脂术是唯一能够抽掉腰间脂肪的方法，节食和运动只能让脂肪萎缩而已。

13. New Zealander Pete Bethune gave a whole new meaning to biofuel when he used his liposuctioned fat to power the world’s fastest eco-boat. A way to solve the obesity epidemic and the fuel crisis?
新西兰人彼得·白求恩缔造了“生物燃料”这个全新概念：他用抽出来的脂肪发动了全球最快的生态小艇。可否视其为解决肥胖问题和燃料危机的妙方呢？

14. It may make you prettier, but not healthier. Liposuction doesn’t remove fat from around the internal organs, so your fat-related health risks are unchanged.
抽脂可以让你看上去更漂亮，但未必更健康。它吸不掉体内器官周围的脂肪，所以，肥胖引起的健康隐患依然存在。

15. Blame Mom and Dad. Obesity is more heritable than schizophrenia, high blood pressure, and alcoholism.
要怪就怪你父母吧。肥胖的遗传性比精神分裂症、高血压和酗酒的遗传率还高。

16. Cutting saturated fat intake to the recommended 10 percent of your calories will prolong your life, but only by a few months at most, researchers found.
研究发现，将饱和脂肪减少10%卡路里，最多可延长数月寿命。

17. The brain is about 70 percent fat.
大脑约含70%脂肪。

18. Bottlenose dolphins use fatty tissue in the head, concentrated in an organ called the melon, to focus sound waves, giving them their sonar ability.
胆鼻海豚头部有块叫“鲸脂”的脂肪组织，可用来聚焦声波，使其具备声纳感应能力。

19. Think you have a spare tire? Whales are wrapped in fat—a thick layer of blubber—as vital insulation against the cold. Some whales have a blubber layer up to 20 inches thick.
是不是想到了你腰部的赘肉？鲸鱼全身裹满鲸脂以便御寒。有些鲸鱼的鲸脂厚达20英寸。

20. Camels have the opposite problem: Living in hot climates, they want as little heat-trapping insulation as possible, so they concentrate their fat in their humps.
但骆驼却恰恰相反：沙漠气候下，保暖的脂肪越少越好。所以，骆驼的脂肪全都集中在了驼峰上。