What are the functions of the abdominal fat in modern society?
To cover or give isolation to the abdominals muscle? We can just wear more clothes to be warm?
To store vitamin A,D,E,K? They can be stored in the intramuscular fat tissue, and ingested with a proper diet.
Energy? We have that enough in our modern society.
So what would be the function of abdominal fat?
Do understand I am asking this with an understanding of a healthy balanced fat diet with proper amounts of saturated fats, PUFA and MUFA and good omega 3/6 ratio's.
And the persons should sport a lot so there muscles will store energy in the intramuscular fat deposits.
Whichever might be the type of accumulation, it will ultimately increase your body weight. which will have to be borne by the hip joints and the knee joints and of course to some extent the ankles. These will result in wearing of the cartilagenous mass at these joints and finally making you suffer from acute pains there.
@ Peter Griepink you mentioned all the functions of subcufat in your question. Now from what I understand these cells continue to grow as our insulin levels peak. With such a high amount of energy especially glucose, this fat increases.
However, if a person reduces insulin levels this fat can begin to act like brown fat (i.e. baging) thus, being more active and providing energy. One form to do this is through cold adaptation. hopefully, I'm not completely off topic.
Peter
Another way to make white adipose tissue behave like brown fat(baging) is by increasing ketone production. Lower insulin levels increase ketone production through fatty acid breakdown, thus subcu fat will act like brown fat by increasing heat and BMR in the fat cells.
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