We had the opportunity to see Body Worlds 3 this weekend. The exhibit envoked a range of emotions from me: facination, somberness, wonderment and repugnance to name a few. I had tears in my eyes when I visited the fetal development room. Had I ever lost a child, I would not have been able to enter that room. It was amazing to see an 8 week old fetus having eyes and fingers. Eight weeks is usually the time when one finds out she is pregnant. There is no room for argument that I was looking at a tiny human being. I do not want to get into a debate, I’m just reporting what I saw.

Going through the exhibit, you see muscles and tendons, skin and arteries. I found myself wondering if these people had been fit or fat when they were alive, as there was no way to tell because all fat had been removed. I hoped we’d be able to see an example of what a fat person looked like on the inside; just what does fat do to your insides and how unhealthy is it? I was in luck because there was a cross section of a 300 pound man. You could tell by the cross section that his stomach hung very low. The cross section was mostly white (fat cells). All of his organs were compressed, his heart taking the biggest beating (pun intended) because it had to work doubly hard to keep this man alive.  It gave me new inspiration to be healthy.

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Posted: October 21st, 2007 under Motivation.
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