Experts are of the opinion that adults have about 30-40 billion fat or adipose cells in their body. The question here is do fat people become fat because they tend to develop an increase in the number of fat cells at a certain stage of life? Researchers do not give their full consent to this because they believe that a fat adult need not necessarily have been a fat infant or vice versa. A fat body being a result of increasing fat cells therefore is hard to ascertain.
Researchers further go onto explain that people shrink and swell like a sponge with the amount of fat in their bodies. As infants, kids begin to develop some amount of fat cells in their bodies. Later, during puberty, the fat cells further develop.
The fat cells of obese people generally has a tendency to expand more which makes more room for fat to accumulate. Experts opine that excess fat cells are found only when a person weighs 60% more than his or her ideal weight which is measured according to his or her unique height and age.
The assumption that a fat baby, if overfed to incorporate more body fat, will eventually grow up to be plump and healthy is no more acceptable. Infact, researchers also believe that there can be no predictors to gain weight in the future. Here, lifestyle plays a major factor in determining what you were as a baby and what you have made out of yourself as an adult.
Researchers from the University of California, Berkley, studied about 180 infants for about 15 years. Their research overthrew the assumptions of fat babies becoming fat in their latter years. Instead, the team of researchers revealed that, babies who were obese at 6 moths or 1 year grew up to be lean and of weighed normal at the age of 9 years.
Leons Shapino, the nutritionist of the study, thereby confirmed that it is incorrect to declare that a fat baby becomes a fat child who finally becomes a fat adult.
