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June 14th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda THURSDAY, June 14 (HealthDay News) — Women who have the popular
plastic surgery procedure known as liposuction may be trading one form of
fat for another, as a new study reveals that the sudden removal of
abdominal fat seems to trigger a buildup of fat around the internal
organs.
At issue, the Brazilian researchers said, is an apparent trade-off
between two kinds of fat, with the removal of “subcutaneous fat” spurring
the growth of “visceral fat.”
Subcutaneous fat, located directly under the skin, is the primary
target of liposuction. Visceral fat wraps itself around internal organs,
and its accumulation has been strongly linked to a higher risk for
diabetes and heart disease.
Here’s the good news: The same research team found that liposuction
patients who adopted an exercise program shortly after surgery both
enjoyed the benefits of abdominal fat removal while largely preventing the
post-surgical growth of visceral fat.
“Importantly, a four-month, supervised exercise program prevented this
compensatory visceral fat increase, increased fat-free mass and improved
physical capacity and insulin sensitivity,” the team, led by Fabiana
Benatti from the University of Sao Paulo, reported.
Benatti and her colleagues detail the findings in the July issue of the
Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism.
The authors focused on the experience of 36 healthy Brazilian women
between the ages of 20 and 35, all of whom underwent abdominal liposuction
between 2010 and 2011 in Sao Paulo.
None of the women had a body-mass index (BMI) over 30 prior to the
procedure, meaning that while they were overweight none was obese. All of
the surgeries were also described as being “small-volume” in nature.
Two months post-surgery, the women were divided into two groups: the
first embarked on a four-month (three times per week) exercise regimen,
while the second essentially maintained a sedentary lifestyle.
Both groups were deemed to have experienced similar drops in body
weight and overall fat mass as a result of their surgery, and both
followed comparable diets post-procedure.
Those in the exercise group engaged in aerobic and anaerobic (weight
training) training through the four-month period.
The result: Six months after their operation, neither group had
regained fat in the abdominal region that was the target area of the
liposuction surgery, leading the team to describe the procedure as
“cosmetically efficient.”
However, patients in the sedentary group experienced a roughly 10
percent increase in visceral fat, equating to what the authors described
as a “significant regain of total fat mass.” In contrast, those in the
exercise group did not.
Benatti’s team said that it is not yet clear exactly how liposuction
raises the risk for visceral fat growth. What is clear, however, is that
exercise seems to mitigate that risk.
Lona Sandon, an assistant professor of clinical nutrition at the
University of Texas Southwestern at Dallas, expressed little surprise with
the findings.
“You oftentime have this snapback of the fats,” she said. “Sure, you
can get rid of some of it with surgery. But if you don’t change your
lifestyle, it doesn’t stay away forever. And certainly if you’ve spent all
this money and incurred the risk of undergoing liposuction — and it’s not
a risk-free option, by any means — why wouldn’t you want to do what you
can to preserve the gain?”
“So, no, I don’t think it’s surprising that exercise helps after
surgery,” Sandon added. “And in that respect, cardiovascular exercise, in
particular, is one of the best ways to go. That means jogging, swimming,
biking, roller blading, getting your heart rate up for an extended period
of time and burning calories. Even walking helps to decrease visceral fat,
even in people who have not had liposuction. And so I would expect it
would work the same for people who have had liposuction.”
Connie Diekman, director of nutrition at Washington University in St.
Louis, seconded the notion.
“This is a small study,” she cautioned. “And it raises the question of
how this might play out among women who were significantly more overweight
than those included in this study.”
“But I think there is a very important message here,” Diekman added,
“in that this study is an example of how you can make a positive change
with exercise. It may not ultimately prevent the return of body fat, but
clearly it can change its distribution or delay its return. And that is
very good news.”
More information
For more on liposuction, visit the U.S. National Library of Medicine.
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