It took several years of further experiments and analysis, but During and his colleagues ultimately concluded that the mild stress of all that activity and interaction activated a communication channel that prompts fat cells to stop releasing a hormone called leptin, which accelerates cancer growth.

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That's what fat cells do, they convert glucose into a form for storage.

这也就是脂肪细胞的工作,它们将糖转化为另一种形式储存起来

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When it does it makes biochemical changes inside the cells and one of the things it does is increase glucose uptake into certain kinds of cells, particularly fat cells and muscle cells.

这导致细胞内部发生生物化学变化,其中的一个变化是,某些细胞开始增加对糖分的摄取,尤其是脂肪细胞和肌细胞

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If you take in more calories than you consume, it gets stored in the fat cells, that's the energy bank that you can draw upon if you don't have enough food and starvation or famine were an issue.

如果你摄入的热量超过消耗的,热量就会存储在脂肪细胞中,这就是能量库,你可以在,食物不够以及饥饿或饥荒的时候利用它

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Why does it go into fat cells?

为什么脂肪细胞要摄取糖呢

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