When scientists look at fat from different parts of the body together, they find that more glucocorticoid receptors tend to show up with more fat-breaking enzymes—but this only happens when they mix the data from belly fat and under-skin fat. When they look at each type of fat separately, there’s no link at all.

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Characterization of regional and gender differences in glucocorticoid receptors and lipoprotein lipase activity in human adipose tissue.

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1994 Jun

Scientists looked at two types of body fat and found that when they looked at each type separately, there was no link between two key molecules — but when they combined both types of fat, a small but clear link appeared. This matches exactly what the claim says.

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Characterization of regional and gender differences in glucocorticoid receptors and lipoprotein lipase activity in human adipose tissue.

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DOI: 10.1210/JCEM.78.6.8200937

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