Correct breathing is health giving and strength giving; it promotes nutrition, lessens the amount of adipose tissue, and reinforces every physical requisite essential to speaking and singing.
"Resonance in Singing and Speaking"
Thomas Fillebrown
They have more adipose tissue than the men, yet are never fat.
"The Bontoc Igorot"
Albert Ernest Jenks
Then he tends to be dwarfed, fatigable, adipose.
"The Glands Regulating Personality"
Louis Berman, M.D.