Summary, Analysis & Review of Sylvia Tara’s The Secret Life of Fat

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The Secret Life of Fat: The Science Behind the Body’s Least Understood Organ and What It Means for You is a thorough summary and synthesis of recent research surrounding the science of human fat. Author Sylvia Tara explores the many intricacies of fat including its composition, its functions as a bodily organ, and its seemingly indomitable ability to persist and grow in the human body.

Tara examines fat from three different angles including an overview of how the scientific conceptualization of fat has changed over time. Slowly, researchers have come to realize that fat is more than just a way for the body to store energy; it is also integral to complex processes and structures, such as hormone regulation, cell building and maintenance, organ protection, and the immune system. It even plays an important role in the body’s communications system by sending messages to both the brain and the metabolic systems…

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• Language: English
• Publisher: IRB Media
• Release date: Jan 30, 2017
• ISBN: 9781683786641

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The Secret Life of Fat: The Science Behind the Body’s Least Understood Organ and What It Means for You is a thorough summary and synthesis of recent research surrounding the science of human fat. Author Sylvia Tara explores the many intricacies of fat including its composition, its functions as a bodily organ, and its seemingly indomitable ability to persist and grow in the human body.

Tara examines fat from three different angles including an overview of how the scientific conceptualization of fat has changed over time. Slowly, researchers have come to realize that fat is more than just a way for the body to store energy; it is also integral to complex processes and structures, such as hormone regulation, cell building and maintenance, organ protection, and the immune system. It even plays an important role in the body’s communications system by sending messages to both the brain and the metabolic systems.

The second angle is fat’s relationship to weight loss. Many attributes of fat, including where in the body one carries it and how easily it is produced, come down to individual biology. For example, caloric intake can vary from person to person; two people will extract different caloric values from a cookie depending on their metabolic rate. Fat is biologically engineered to preserve itself, which is one reason it can be