3. Fat and muscle are two different kinds of tissue. Where your body chooses to draw fat from for fuel, generally depends on a genetic parameter known as fat patterning. As a general rule, "The fat that goes on last, comes off first.”
4. By over exercising an area of your body in an attempt to get rid of the fat, you might make the "spot" more muscular, and therefore make it look larger.
5. You can find data supporting just about any view you want. Here’s the link to the article supporting this view. http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0675/is_n5_v16/ai_21195443/