Jobs are lost, lovers forsaken, lives postponed – all because of fat cells. A $40 billion industry thrives on the hatred of the graceful, lipid spheres called fat cells. Millions of people fight a war of starvation against them every day. Most Americans would rather get hit by a truck than get fat. Amputation of a leg is preferable. Some would rather die.

Fear of fat does nothing for you except get in your way. Being afraid of fat won’t impress a date or advance your career or make your family closer. It doesn’t whiten teeth or balance your bank account or cure depression. I guarantee that worrying about your weight won’t make you look better in your clothes, or out of them. Fear of fat is like a cloud over your head. It’s not attractive. Ask yourself, what has body anxiety done for me lately? Nothing good, right? So why not get rid of it?  Essential Health Tips

There are a lots of people who’ve conquered their fear of fat (probably you’ve already started). You can face your fears. You can dispel that cloud. And you don’t have to change the world to do it. You don’t even have to change your weight. You just have to change your attitude. It’d be my honor to act as your friendly tour guide on the trip from the old attitude (fear of fat) to the new attitude: flabulousness!

Scientists don’t study fat cells very much because nothing much goes wrong with them. A hundred years ago, Woods Hutchinson (the C Everett Koop of his day) called fat cells “one of the most peaceable, useful, and law-abiding of all our tissues” and “a most harmless, healthful, innocent tissue.” (Laura Fraser, author of Losing It: False Hopes and Fat Profits in the Diet Industry, found these quotes in Cosmopolitan and Saturday Evening Post.) The UCSF library houses atleast 2859 books about cancer but only one book on fat cells, or adipocytes.

The average human body contains between twenty billion and 40 billion fat cells. Even if our pals the adipocytes don’t warrant much shelf space in the med-school stacks, they are important for your health. Fat cells keep you warm in winter, protech your internal organs from injury, and allow you to float blissfully in the swimming pool on a summer afternoon. Fat enables women to menstruate and protects against osteoporosis, one of the major killers of women. What’s more, fat prevents wrinkles and gives you sexy curves. Without the awesome energy resources of your fat, you’d find it tough to skip breakfast or run a marathon or bear children. Fat is a necessary part of the human body, just like brain cells, and blood cells, and just like them, fat represents life.

Quiz: Are you a FATSO?

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