Surgery doesn’t turn fat into fit

Liposuctioning your waistline can help reduce fatness but not increase fitness, reveals a new study.

Liposuctioning your waistline can help reduce fatness but not increase fitness, reveals a new study.Research found obese women who dropped up to 10.35 kilograms (23lb) of belly fat by way of liposuction did not appear to lower their risk of diabetes or heart disease, both of which are fat-related.It is a frustrating and surprising finding to researchers who believed that surgically removing fat would help restore a healthier body chemistry.”It’s not how much fat you remove, but how you remove the fat that is really what is more important,” said lead study author Dr Samuel Klein at Washington University in St Louis.”We have to go back to the same old traditional recommendation of lose weight and be more physically active.”The study, published in the New England Journal of Medicine, involved 15 obese women who underwent cosmetic liposuction.The women’s blood chemistry and pressure – which reflect the risk of diabetes and heart disease – were checked before surgery and about three months after.While the women were slimmer afterward, their medical profiles were almost identical.Body fat has been increasingly tied to diabetes, heart disease, cancer and other diseases in recent years.(Source: Wales National Website-Health, June 2004)