For Medical Patients all fat is not the same

There is new medical information that has come from from a study done at Temple University and published in the latest issue of “Diabetes”. The study is interesting because the fat in obese patients is not as healthy as that in leaner individuals.

Adipose tissue samples taken from nondiabetic obese patients showed increased expression of proteins linked to endoplasmic reticulum stress, which may play a role in insulin resistance, Guenther Boden, M.D., of Temple University here, and colleagues reported in the September issue of Diabetes.

The bottom line of their finding is that there is something fundamentally different in the fat of obese persons and the fat of lean persons that may explain some of the pathology of obesity. Read the rest of this entry »

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