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Fire Escape Partners
3465 25th Street, Suite 17
San Francisco, CA 94110 | (adjective, noun)
[AD-ah-poes'] 
adjective
1. of, related to, or composed of fat; fatty: "Why order steak if you're going to avoid a cut with the luscious marble of adipose tissue?"
noun
2. fat under the skin or around major organs; fat
additional noun forms: adiposeness, adiposity
Origin:
Approximately 1743; from modern Latin, 'adiposus': fatty; from Latin, 'adipem': fat of animals, from 'adeps,' 'adip-': fat; from Greek, 'aleipha': unguent, fat, related to 'lipos': grease, fat. In action:
"Dr. Leung said studies should try to establish the reasons for the apparent robustness of overweight people when it comes to TB, although it appears to be supported by a few theories.
'Our adipose (fatty) tissues not only control our metabolism, but also our endocrine and immunological systems. This is our conjecture, but it's not without basis. In our studies (in Hong Kong), in ICU wards, overweight people have lower death rates than thin people,' Dr. Leung said. 'We must find out why this is so.'
Falling TB rates and the availability of food at more affordable prices in industrializing states in the late 18th and early 19th centuries may not be a mere coincidence, he added."
"Obese less vulnerable to TB, study finds," Reuters (June 25, 2007).
"brown fat: (noun) A dark-colored, mitochondrion-rich adipose tissue in many mammals that generates heat to regulate body temperature, especially in hibernating animals."
The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language.
"We then had a short argument about just what these fish were. Salmon (salmo salmo) is a different fish to trout (salmo trutta), and to make matters more complicated there is also a sea trout - a trutta that has decided to live out at sea for a bit - usually caught when they're returning to fresh water. The only accurate way to tell a sea trout from a salmon is to count the number of scales along the adipose line - impractical at a fish counter.
When I check with the management it turns out that these are genuine sea trout and 'sea' has been omitted from the ticket by mistake. This makes them impressively inexpensive. All of which illustrates the scale of the biggest problem facing this store: the staff at a traditional fishmongers, or butchers, or bakers, or even a city centre food hall know their stuff, but such expertise is in short supply. Good staff must be hard to find especially for such a large shop.
Despite public perception, Whole Foods Market makes no claims that all its products are organic, and says the amount of organic produce differs from week to week, depending on availability. In the fruit and veg section the balance between 'organic' or ' conventional' looks to be about 50:50. But the impression left with the customers is that all the food here is somehow better and worthier."
Charles Campion. "The great salad box swizz," [Review: Whole Foods Market, London] Evening Standard (June 20, 2007).
"While the fat get skinny, the skinny will die."
Russian saying.
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