Cutting Off the Blood Supply to Fat Cells Could Become a New Obesity Therapy
By admin on Feb 09, 2010 with Comments 0
White fat is the “bad” gut fat associated with obesity and enlarged abdomens. When a pound of new white fat forms in the body, it requires a full mile of new blood vessels to nourish and sustain it. That’s because white fat is much like a tumor in requiring a steady blood supply. To build the new blood vessels, it depends on a process called angiogenesis.
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