20-07-2013, 06:54 PM
What is with the prevalence of this silly fiction that breasts are "mostly fat"? Even if we completely ignore the muscular and connective support tissues present, the ratio in non-pregnant women is 1:1 glandular to fat. So at most it's only half fat. And in pregnant/nursing women it's 2:1. So it's only a quarter fat when a woman is pregnant or nursing. And that's completely ignoring the rest of the tissues that comprise a breast. Think about it. In the animals we as humans eat, what's considered one of the leanest cuts? OH! *watches light bulbs light up (at least hopefully...)* There's only one type of "breast" that would be mostly fat. And that's a fat mans moobs. Which really are just fat stores that've expanded the breast area because they've run out of other places to expand in. Which is why when that occurs it's called PSEUDO gynocomastia. Those men don't actually have breasts.
Sorry, I'll get down off my soap box now... I just get really really irritated by these kinds of things.
Sorry, I'll get down off my soap box now... I just get really really irritated by these kinds of things.