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fatty

adjective as in full of adipose tissue

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Using a fluorescent heat sensor they developed, the researchers found that when ACOX2 metabolized certain fatty acids, brown fat cells got hotter.

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Hegseth said the military must be a place where there are “no fug-ups, no fatties, no facial hair, no body hair. Just hot shredded hairless men who are definitely not gay!”

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Cholesterol is a natural fatty substance produced in the liver and can also be found in some of the foods we eat.

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It may be “airy,” but it’s fatty air.

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It requires a level of physical brain development called mylenation — the growth of fatty sheaths that wrap around nerve cells, insulating them and allowing information to travel more quickly and efficiently through the brain.

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