FAT: the unsung sister to your fascinating fascia

For a long time fat, like its companion tissue fascia, has been a tissue quickly disposed of in the dissection lab; but I'm here to tell you that fat is overdue its day in the sun.

I want to place something called a Content Caution here as you, like me, might have an unsettled relationship with this tissue. Please read with care and affection for yourself.

I’ll put my cards on the table here: my fatty layer is a tissue I grew up to dislike; I objectified and judged myself through this tissue as much as any external gaze did. It’s t…