Are You a TOFI?
Friday, May 11th, 2007TOFI stands for “Thin Outside, Fat Inside”, which in fact means that if you are a TOFI, then you are thin on the outside and fat on the inside at the same time. You may wonder how’s that possible?
“Being thin doesn’t automatically mean you’re not fat.” – That’s the answer of Dr. Jimmy Bell, who is a professor of molecular imaging at Imperial College in London.
Dr. Bell and his team have been researching on that for more than 10 years now. They’ve scanned nearly 800 people with MRI machines and have created the so called “fat maps” that show where our bodies store fat.
Thin people probably don’t realize that they also have fat issues. This is due to the fact that their bodies do store internal fat around invisible to the naked eye organs, such as the liver or the heart. We’ve used to say that only the people whose external fat is stored underneath the skin (which is the largest organ in human body and is visible with naked eye) are really fat. I wish it was as simple as that.
