Vascularization

One of the distressing things about aging is that one comes to loose fat in places
one doesn't want to, like around the eyes. Trying to put on eye make-up is then
like trying to paint a flower on a towel. But enough about me; I did come across a
fascinating article about fat and the human body.

Body-builders, aiming for as little body fat as possible, end up having to cope with
vascularization, the appearance of veins right under the skin. Makes sense; fat is
normally what hides veins from sight. It also brings home the difference between
body-building and strength training. The fellow puling a bus needs not only muscle
but fat, to keep the muscle stoked. Perhaps the Sumo wrestler is the ultimage case of this.

Of course, the middle-aged will have more body fat around organs, and one needs
to accept this as inevitable. One can use an impedance scale to measure the evolution
over time - or training - of one's bf percentage, although such home scales say very
little between individuals.

There is a difference between men and women because the later have fat for breast
tissue and around the uterus:

http://athletictraining.fr/photos-pourcentage-de-graisse-des-hommes-et-femmes/