Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site sdccsu3.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!akgua!sdcsvax!sdccsu3!kenn From: kenn@sdccsu3.UUCP (David Whiteman) Newsgroups: net.med Subject: Re: Re: weight loss Message-ID: <1780@sdccsu3.UUCP> Date: Sat, 28-Apr-84 06:13:40 EDT Article-I.D.: sdccsu3.1780 Posted: Sat Apr 28 06:13:40 1984 Date-Received: Sun, 29-Apr-84 07:27:24 EDT References: <6570@gatech.UUCP> Organization: UCSD Medical School Lines: 6 Can someone medical confirm or dispute this? The way I heard about fat cells was that their number never decreases. Thus if you lost a great deal of weight, you'd still have the same number of fat cells, they'd only be smaller. I never heard about the number of them becoming constant but I would doubt it.