Show I u r p Daily j Health hs Service i I Body Lives on Stored Fat I h ny By y DR MORRIS FISHBEIN Editor Journal of the American Medical Med led ical heal Association and of lIy ela the Health Magazine Fat Pat is utilized by the human being largely as a source of energy It contrIbutes contributes contributes con con- tributes many calories In relationship to the amount that may be taken By contributing energy it relieves the from the digestion assImilation assimilation assimilation assim assIm- and absorption of a large arge amount of carbohydrate drate or sugar To a certain extent also fats are arc valuable in sparing protein which is used for tor building tissue However the human being cannot be supported support support- ed by fat alone indeed It is well to emphasize again that the human body demands a widely idely varied diet and that concentration on any single single sin sin- gb gle type of or food is likely to be in injurious In- In in-I in jurious to health I I If the human being is starving as occurs not only under conditions of or famine but when people follow un unwise unwise unwise un- un I wise reducing formulas the tho body tries to live on the fat that has been stored up in times tunes of plenty Under such circumstances more fat will be found In the blood which Is carrying It from one part of ot the body to another an an- other When fat tat in the form of butter butt or beef or nutritive oil Is 15 in the Intestines intestines intestines intes intes- tines and changed ed into fatty acids or soaps then the a action of the I cells in the walls of or the Intestines the fat is developed into a new form in which It Is carried b by the blood and deposited in the bod body If the fat In Inthe inthe inthe the blood Is 15 in excess the fluid por por- tion of the blood will have a milky color However the fat lo is usually ta i up by bj the tissues as rapidly as it tie clops and either cither stored away or orup U d up promptly by the cells in the pro of heat or to provide energy The amount of fat that a 0 1 per peruses US uses meo up in his body Is of course reg I by the amount of carbohydrate or sugar that he is taking up at act H Husing using at the same time It is interesting to realize that thaL the the chemical changes that have hawe been n d dt- dt scribed arc are going on all the tin tine I changing the form and nature of U W rious substances in older aider to nia mw them available for the needs of t th living cells t |