Yes, these articles, like the ones you posted earlier, are fascinating in that they give ideas and hope about possible medical treatments for obesity coming in the future by artificially killing fat cells in obese individuals.

I'm curious about where you read that the fat cells "fill with water" as they empty of fat? I know another reader mentioned learning it in a class they took, but I'd like to know what kinds of research came up with this idea. I know that textbooks often describe a simplistic/general version of what the authors think might be happening for cases where we really aren't sure, so I was wondering if this was one of those cases or if there was real data for it.