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Do fat cells multiply?

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Dr. Clarence Lyons answered

Specializes in Family Medicine

Fat cells: You can form more, and new fat cells, by eating more calories and not exercising to burns calories, but they do not multiply like we typically speak of multiplying cells.

Answered 12/7/2013

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