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Where does your body put excess fats?

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Everywhere: Too much fat can be distributed throughout the body, on the hips, abdomen, everywhere.

Answered 3/26/2013

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Dr. Lance Ashworth answered

Specializes in General Practice

Generally its evolut: In women the fat depots are usually termed "the maternal fat depots". They are the hips, abdominals, lateral thighs. The body pulls fat from these areas slowly. In a famine if the woman is breast feeding the body will have this area as an energy source. In the majority of these areas the blood supply is poor, but can suppy a food source over a lenghty time frame to help produce breast milk.

Answered 7/5/2015

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