Location of fat deposits in the human body

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Several months ago, I met a person working on the " Visible Human "

project at NIH. Several bodies donated for research were frozen, thin

sliced, photographed, and digitized. The result is a set of data that

is very valuable for medical research and teaching.

Some of the projects have produced web applications that allow viewing

the distribution of fat in the body. When you view the pictures from

the following links (University of Colorado), you can click at any

location of the body to obtain a transversal view at that point.

I was quite amazed to see that most of the fat is stored right under

the skin, even for obese people. Abdominal fat seems to be a very

small percentage of the total body fat.

Visible human: female

http://www.uchsc.edu/sm/chs/browse/browse_f.html

Visible human: male

http://www.uchsc.edu/sm/chs/browse/browse_m.html

Tony