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Obese People Have Sick Fat Cells

Posted on August 29, 2008

Alright, obesity is bad that's common knowledge but new research in Diabetes claims that fat people actually have sick fat cells that make insulin-resistant proteins. Krisha McCoy of HealthDay News reports:The fat cells we found in our obese patients were deficient in several areas, study author Guenther Boden, the Laura H. Carnell Professor of Medicine and chief of endocrinology, said in Temple press release. Boden said that the obese people's fat cells showed stress on the endoplasmic reticulum (ER), which helps cells synthesize proteins and monitor how they are folded. When the E...

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