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I'm a medical student, as stated above, and no, a medical school will not accept an overweight candidate for a cadaver due to the complexity of dissecting an obese person (believe me, fat is your worst enemy in Gross lab). The other complication is that a dead person's fat behaves differently than a living person's fat and we can't get a cadaver that hasn't been preserved. As for why I wasn't thinking about using an animals fat for the actual experiment is because it would be hard to find one solid mass of fat large enough to suite my needs, most stock animals are bread to be lean, not fat, so although pigs pack on the pounds, most of it is muscle.
On another note, the idea of using animal fat to measure it's elasticity sound like a great idea. The only question would be, how to do the actual measurement??? I certainly need to compress the fat, but how d I measure the force being applied and the force being absorbed by the squishing of the fat? If I can figure this out, I think I will be halfway there.
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