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From: hutch@shark.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.med
Subject: Re: weight loss
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Date: Wed, 2-May-84 13:25:14 EDT
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Posted: Wed May  2 13:25:14 1984
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<bah day ah'm Mr Nacherl, Healthy as Ah can be,
 But at Naht Ahm a Junkfood Junkie, Oh Lard have Pitty on Me!>

| I had heard too that the number of fats cells remains constant after
| some time like puberty. That doesn't seem so hard to believe, the
| number of nerve cells remains constant too.
| -- 
| Phil Ngai

Sorry, haven't seen 4605@amd70 for some reason, so cannot comment on
it, but the info I got was from a doctor, on the Cable Health Channel.

If it is indeed true that the number of fat cells is constant, then
please explain how extreme obesity cases in adults can come about.
There is a maximum size which a fat cell will reach.  That would imply
that there is a maximum obesity which a person can reach, after puberty
or whatever, and THAT can be empirically disproven!

The notion that the number of nerve cells is constant is hogwash.
There are no (or very few) new nerve cells generated after some age
(it may be around puberty, it may be around 4 or 5 years; I have seen
contradictory info), and especially in the case of alchohol users,
NERVE CELLS DIE!

Therefore the number of nerve cells decreases.

Hutch <picky, picky>