1.   Deer spend more energy and store fat in the summer and fall when food is abundant,

2.   As the Eadeses tell it, your overwrought insulin system will take a holiday, and glucagon will go to work on all that stored fat.

3.   Other babies born small react by storing more fat than their body needs as a reaction to their having been undernourished in the womb.

4.   Sharks store fat in their liver.

5.   Some long-distance migrants having the ability to almost double their body weight in some instances, storing subcutaneous fat to be used in long nonstop flights.

6.   That, in turn, signals the body to store more fat while creating a craving for more carbohydrates.

7.   The ob gene instructs fat cells to secrete a hormone called leptin, which travels through the bloodstream and signals the brain when the body has stored enough fat.

8.   The premise is that sugar, not fat, is the cause of weight gain, so the sugar in the fruit will encourage the body to store fat.

9.   The scientists who created the modified mouse stripped away a gene known as Hgmic, which appears to play a role in helping mice store fat.

10.   The theory goes that Pimas who survived times of famine were those whose thrifty genes worked to store fat during times of plenty.