Newly Identified Cells Make Fat

"Newly Identified Bulls**T Makes Researchers Wallets Fat."

"To understand where fat comes from, you have to start with a skinny mouse. By using such a creature, and observing the growth of fat after injections of different kinds of immature cells, scientists at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and Rockefeller University have discovered an important fat precursor cell that may in time explain how changes in the numbers of fat cells might increase and lead to obesity. The finding, published online in this week's issue of the journal Cell, could also have implications for understanding how fat cells affect conditions such as diabetes and cardiovascular disease."

Hogwash.

The only thing that makes people overweight/obese is more Calories in than out.

The number of fat cells is immaterial.

If you have more cells, each gets less plump than if you have fewer cells.

If you have fewer cells, each gets more plump than if you have more cells.

But no matter what, the excess Calories get stored mostly as fat and in the cells you already have.