Fat foam

Since I haven't posted anything disgusting in a while, let me say a few words about fat. Cadaver fat. Cadavers have this yellow fat in little squishy pellets that pack together in subcutaenous connective tissue, which by the way, is called fascia. I like this word. Fascia. Anyway, The Body hasn't actually got a lot of fat in general, but the other groups body does. When they dissected the butt, they came up with a solid layer of fat about three inches thick. This really makes me wonder how much fat I have stored away because she doesn't look all that big. And especially now since her leg and arm fat have been removed. Oh yes, so both cadavers are significantly lighter now with all this fat gone. It makes them a lot easier to flip.

Even though he is pretty thin, The Body does have some fat, and a lot of it behind the knee, which is a place I never would have thought to look for fat. Who's ever trying to lose behind the knee fat? Nevertheless, there is a great deal of it there. And as we try to dissect it out, it melts underneath our tools and hands and forms this liquidy yellow movie popcorn liquid (sorry) that foams. We were just saying yesterday that it might be more useful to dissect with a grapefruit spoon because this way we could spoon the fat as we cut.

I'm not entirely sure why the fat melts so easily, but perhaps it has something to do with the fixing process. If it really melts this easily, then for weight loss people should just sit in a hot room for a while and let it all drip off.

More updates on The Body: We're allowed to know his first name, which is Harold. He died of pneumonia at the age of 67 in the hospital. We've found two fake plastic tubes which we think are replacement femoral arteries. He also has some metal in his knee, so we think that he'll have a replacement knee, though we haven't dissected it out completely yet. Isn't this like an episode of CSI? There's actually a day later on where a pathologist will come through and take a look at the bodies, which I'm looking forward to.

A great post for after the chocolate cake post, no? By the way, I've been eating the chocolate cake for breakfast with milk tea, which makes me a very happy breakfaster indeed.