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A 53-year-old member asked:
Where does your body put excess fats?
2 doctor answers • 4 doctors weighed in
A Verified Doctoranswered
33 years experience
Everywhere: Too much fat can be distributed throughout the body, on the hips, abdomen, everywhere.
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Dr. Lance Ashworthanswered
General Practice 21 years experience
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.
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A 29-year-old member asked:
What happens to excess fats inside the body?
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Dr. Scott Bolhackanswered
Wound care 36 years experience
Fat: Excessive calories that are eaten are stored in the body as fat in fat cells. When there is a time period for need for this calories, the body draws from this store of energy.
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Last updated Jul 5, 2015
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