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When the body does not use the glucose it absorbs, the surplus can eventually be converted into fat.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 2, 2026

By converting part of the glucose into gluconate, the implant prevents that portion from being metabolized and stored in tissues, potentially helping reduce fat accumulation.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 2, 2026

In particular, targeting the processes through which pyruvate contributes to fat accumulation may offer promising possibilities.

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

My legs felt like fat logs floating on water, just bobbing around without any control.

From "Rump: The (Fairly) True Story of Rumpelstilskin" by Liesl Shurtliff

Understanding these differences could eventually help scientists identify why certain people might respond better to omega-3s than others and whether new treatments could improve the brain's ability to benefit from these essential 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

While industrial trans fats are strongly associated with heart disease, the naturally occurring forms found in dairy did not appear to carry the same risk.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 8, 2026

A new study suggests that the trans fats naturally present in dairy foods, including milk, butter, and cheese, do not increase the risk of heart disease or type 2 diabetes.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 8, 2026

Not only that, but the kind of fats in pastured animals are the ones that are healthier for us to eat.

From "The Omnivore's Dilemma" by Michael Pollan

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

Investors zeroed in on United’s potentially fatter jet-fuel bill — the airline said it expects nearly $6 billion in additional fuel expenses for the year, based on crude prices as of Tuesday.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 15, 2026

You will see how it changes its skin as it eats more and gets fatter.

From "My Life with the Chimpanzees" by Jane Goodall

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

Though at least he wasn’t mindlessly competing with the lab next door for the fattest IPO.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026

Of course I’m talking about Fat Bear Week, the annual event in which people elect — well, yes, the fattest bear.

From Salon ● Sep. 26, 2026

“It’s the early Christian that gets the fattest lion.”

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 24, 2026

I plopped myself down in my polka-dotted sunsuit and picked off the fattest ants to eat.

From "Dreaming in Cuban" by Cristina García

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

Overfull, teaming, something fatted and overfed, like livestock.”

From Slate ● Sep. 20, 2015

After expending hundreds of angry words, he noted that he is one of 32 terrifically rich owners and everyone loves a fatted calf.

From New York Times ● May 6, 2015

Feasting on the fatted calf of divine grace, every day was thanksgiving.

From Time ● Feb. 13, 2015

I could tell he had not considered the possibility that all the fatted ships he had traveled so far to plunder might be at the bottom of the sea by the time he got there.

From "The Many Assassinations of Samir, the Seller of Dreams" by Daniel Nayeri

"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

The sow must live as well as a fatting hog, or the pigs will be good for little.

From Cottage Economy To Which Is Added The Poor Man's Friend by William Cobbett

To each mess was given a wooden kid, or piggin, as our farmers call them, because it is out of such wooden vessels that they feed their pigs that are fatting for the market.

From A Journal of a Young Man of Massachusetts, 2nd ed. Late A Surgeon On Board An American Privateer, Who Was Captured At Sea By The British, In May, Eighteen Hundred And Thirteen, And Was Confined First, At Melville Island, Halifax, Then At Chatham, In England ... And Last, At Dartmoor Prison. Interspersed With Observations, Anecdotes And Remarks, Tending To Illustrate The Moral And Political Characters Of Three Nations. To Which Is Added, A Correct Engraving Of Dartmoor Prison, Representing The Massacre Of American Prisoners, Written By Himself. by Benjamin Waterhouse

Opinions and practices with regard to pig fatting have changed very much during the past half century, and especially so since the full effect of the fearful war has been felt.

From The Pig Breeding, Rearing, and Marketing by Sanders Spencer