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THE degree of unsaturation of depot fat, as measured by its iodine number, has been shown to depend on species, temperature of the environment, diet and site within the body of the fat1. During the course of investigations in Bantu children aged up to 4 yr. in South Africa it was found that as the child got older, so the iodine number of the depot fat (taken from the anterior abdominal wall) increased and the difference between the means of the group under 1 yr. old and those aged 1 yr. was significant (P = 0.025 − 0.01) and between the means of 1 yr. and 3 yr. the significance was 1 in 20. Comparison with the 2-yr.-old group did not show any significance owing to the small number in the group (Fig. 1).
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MACDONALD, I. Ambient Temperature and Depot Fat Iodine Number in Children. Nature 192, 363–364 (1961). https://doi.org/10.1038/192363a0
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