CiCi’s All-You-Can-Eat-Buffet-buzzkilling researchers at Trinity College Dublin have discovered both an interesting and depressing quirk about a particular fat-fighting type of cell in the body.

Their potency to regulate obesity goes down the fatter you get. Oh; And then it just quits.

It turns out these cells, called INKTs, help keep most people from getting obese.

But there comes a tipping-point, where they just seem to stop and teir efficacy then approaches zero; However…