Easy Health Options Staff | Mar 12, 2012 | Comments 0
America has a fat problem around the middle as the average person’s weight climbs and our bodies continue to deposit extra fat behind our belts. And while having any excess body fat increases the risk of illness, those fat cells inside the abdomen are especially dangerous, secreting molecules that increase inflammation. As a result, that increased inflammation is leading to higher rates of heart disease, diabetes and cancer.If you’re thinking of using liposuction to remove that fat, don’t count on any significant health benefit from the procedure. Studies on liposuction show that it doesn’t change your chances of chronic disease.
“Despite removing large amounts of subcutaneous fat from beneath the skin — about 20 percent of a person’s total body fat mass — there were no beneficial medical effects (to liposuction),” says Samuel Klein, M.D., who has investigated how liposuction affects health. “(Our) results demonstrated that decreasing fat mass by surgery, which removes billions of fat cells, does not provide the metabolic benefits seen when fat mass is reduced by lowering calorie intake, which shrinks the size of fat cells and decreases the amount of fat inside the abdomen and other tissues.”
“Many years ago, atherosclerosis was thought to be related to lipids and to the excessive deposit of cholesterol in the arteries,” says Luigi Fontana, M.D., Ph.D., assistant professor of medicine at Washington University in St. Louis and an investigator at the Istituto Superiore di Sanita, Rome, Italy who has also studied belly (visceral) fat. “Nowadays, it’s clear that atherosclerosis is an inflammatory disease. There also is evidence that inflammation plays a role in cancer, and there is even evidence that it plays a role in aging. Someday we may learn that visceral fat is involved in those things, too.”
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