Nutrition and the fat cell.

Nutrition and adipose cellularity are considered in terms of possible effects of nutrition on the fat cell and of the fat cell in nutrition. Studies are reported from which it is concluded that change in dietary energy intake occuring in response to a change in the palatability or accessability of diet may be a function of both fat cell number and fat cell size. It is possible that excessive fat cell production is a device used for coping with some disorder. But in cases where diet is the likely cause of excessive fat cell production it may be possible eventually to isolate components of the diet as responsible rather than ordering restriction of total energy intake.