How Does Fat Kill Thee? Many Ways

From Wired News comes How Does Fat Kill Thee? Many Ways. This information is just the extra kick in the butt I need to lose a few and get in shape for the excursions planned for later this year in Iquitos, Lima, Guayaquil, Cuzco and points N E and W. I'd already decided I didn't really feel like dragging around anything extra at 11K feet, but now knowing that all those "oily, yellowish globs of fat" are churning out "a stew of hormones and other chemical messengers" that muck up my health ... well ...