fat
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The mice also lost weight, suggesting that converting excess glucose rather than allowing it to contribute to fat storage could offer an additional metabolic benefit.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 2, 2026
Further experiments helped the researchers identify a possible biological explanation for the increased liver fat.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 27, 2026
Laboratory experiments with liver cells isolated from mice showed that pyruvate and fructose worked together to increase fat storage in those cells.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 27, 2026
Fatty liver, the earliest stage of MASLD, occurs when excess fat builds up in the liver.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 27, 2026
I nodded, just as Bessie burst into tears because Joey was dangling a fat worm in her face.
From "The Seven Wonders of Sassafras Springs" by Betty G. Birney
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"Multiple nutrients present in peanuts, including unsaturated fats, dietary fiber, vitamins and minerals and bioactive phytochemicals, could potentially contribute to the observed brain benefits," says Joris.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 1, 2026
Researchers also discovered that it works through an unexpected mechanism involving the way the body processes fats.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 22, 2026
His first beat was covering oils, fats and waxes for the weekly trade periodical Chemical Market Reporter.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 18, 2026
The researchers wanted to determine whether the trans fats naturally found in dairy foods should be viewed in the same way.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 8, 2026
We arrive home fifteen minutes later with two bags full of trans fats Dad never would have touched in the Before.
From "South of Somewhere" by Kalena Miller
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Retailers like private-label products because they allow the chains to undercut competitors on price, control production and advertising costs, and deliver fatter margins, retail analysts say.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 16, 2026
Campbell says they "played around" with how much the ball was blown up, adding: "In previous weeks it was actually a bit fatter, and then this week it definitely feels smaller."
From BBC ● Sep. 7, 2026
I never became “unrecognizable,” and I spent more time than I’d like to admit looking at myself in the mirror and comparing what I saw to photos of the younger, fatter version of myself.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 12, 2026
But weakening domestic sales are pushing manufacturers like Zhang to seek fatter margins abroad, where consumers have more purchasing power.
From Barron's ● Aug. 9, 2026
“Do you want thinner spaghetti or fatter fettuccini?”
From "Three Little Words: A Memoir" by Ashley Rhodes-Courter
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What makes this species particularly remarkable is its unusually thick, barrel-shaped internal skeleton, earning it the distinction of being the "chunkiest" or "fattest" belemnite ever identified.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 20, 2026
Sometimes we all need some joy in life, such as contemplating the fattest bears without all the other gloomy stuff in the world.
From Salon ● Sep. 26, 2026
“It’s the early Christian that gets the fattest lion.”
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 24, 2026
“The fattest chicken is in Belgium but there are other chickens around,” De Wever said last month.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 15, 2025
All through the speech, she kept squeezing the fattest part of Eleanor's arm.
From "Eleanor & Park" by Rainbow Rowell
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Finally, with the infrastructure in place and the new money flowing, the Dodgers then opened their fatted wallet for the players that created the championship.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 4, 2024
The film also captures a tradition that would soon disappear from New Orleans Mardi Gras — the “boeuf gras,” or fatted ox, paraded around the city.
From New York Times ● Jun. 23, 2022
At the Honda Classic one year, I fatted my second shot on the par-4 second hole into a muddy area left of the green.
From Golf Digest ● Oct. 19, 2016
Overfull, teaming, something fatted and overfed, like livestock.”
From Slate ● Sep. 20, 2015
Grace’s hands are fists, her fatted chin is trembling, her eyes are pink and watery, like a laboratory rabbit’s.
From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood
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"I had three weeks off after the US Open and you probably saw a little bit on Thursday I was fatting a few shots," said Hatton.
From BBC ● Jul. 14, 2023
Even when steep swingers hit it solid, they take deep divots—they're always on the verge of fatting it.
From Golf Digest ● Mar. 13, 2017
Further it is just as much a mistake for fatting pigs as for human beings to be continually eating, or at irregular intervals, small quantities of food.
From The Pig Breeding, Rearing, and Marketing by Sanders Spencer
In this predicament we wintered about 1,000 half-bred lambs, more than 400 ewes, and some fatting sheep.
From The Stock-Feeder's Manual the chemistry of food in relation to the breeding and feeding of live stock by Sir Charles Alexander Cameron
Some Glimpses of the Past," Miss Taber says: "But the chief business of most farmers was the fatting of cattle.
From Quaker Hill A Sociological Study by Warren H. (Warren Hugh) Wilson
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