February 29, 2012 | healthcaremagic.com. Within hours of the procedure I had a fever of about 102 and body aches, chills, and bad diarrhea with a lot of mucus accompanied by horrific cramps. ...My fever and chills and aches went away last....
Where the misunderstanding often comes in is that muscle is much more dense than fat, so that, by volume, it seems to weigh more. That is, a pound of muscle occupies less space than a pound of fat.
Sheets of dense connective tissue cover muscles, separate neighbouring muscles and also serve to give attachment to muscle fibres. The largest single mass of dense connective tissue is seen as the dermis (specifically, the reticular dermis) of the skin. In some animals the dermis is thick enough to be processed as leather. In larger sheets, collagen fibres run in all directions to give strength against multidirectional forces.