Fat Cells Are Sensitive to Sunlight

Sleep Review Magazine ^ | January 31, 2018

[Buttons12]

I know a few Polynesians who’d dispute this.

[Blood of Tyrants]

How is it that brain cells die, but fat cells live forever?

[Red Badger]

I don't think so, Tim...................

[Parmy]

Is that why there are so many role-poly sun bathers?

[Mr. K]

I wonder if the red/blue shift as we approach and move away from the sun each year is detectable?

My guess is yes, but I’ve never seen any research on it.

I suspect our bodies can sense spring is coming from that. I swear I feel like I can.

[LYDIAONTARIO]

What if you feel better in cold weather and shun the hot sun?

[Ciaphas Cain]

Not all that helpful for morbidly obese vampires...

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks nickcarraway.

when exposed to the blue light emitted by the sun

Well, that sounds easy -- but then I remember the words of Al Bundy, when confronted by a large woman who wants to get that all-over tan:

you're asking a lot of the Sun.

[wally_bert]

Al Bundy - at least I’m not him.

[ichabod1]

twerkin’ atop the ruins of western civilization.

[GOPJ]

“If you flip our findings around, the insufficient sunlight exposure we get 8 months of the year living in a northern climate may be promoting fat storage and contribute to the typical weight gain some of us have over winter.”

Promoting fat storage in winter's probably a survival adaptation...

[Songcraft]

Well, their masticatory gourmandization probably plays a role in that outcome too.

Here's a song relating to that process and its outcome...

       "Roly Poly - Hank Williams

[bramps]

There are worse things out tonight than vampires.

[9YearLurker]

“Light” would make this finding.

[SunkenCiv]

“This must be what my horoscope meant by ‘Kaboom!’”

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

Well peel my skin and call me Bean Pole. Sign me up!

[stylin19a]

Didn’t I see one of those lights on the back of a comic book ?

[doorgunner69]

Now, now. You will get the FR chubbo lovers all excited. No need for “more cheesburgers” here.

[Mr. K]

then you build up fat cells to insulate you, and avoid the sun which would shrink them.