Welcome to part seven of The science behind weight lossA series of talks in which we separate myths about diet from the reality of exercise and nutrition. Here, Rhian Parker Health Sociologist, from the National University of Australia, looks cosmetic surgery as a tool for rapid weight loss:
While public health messages are aimed at training the community on healthy eating options and physical activity, liposuction offers a magic sphere to remove “persistent” fat without effort.
The number of cosmetic surgery procedures in the United States increased by 155% In five years to 2010, with liposuction coming as one of the five most popular processes. Data on cosmetic surgery in Australia are not available, but it is likely to have a similar appeal here.
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Liposuction, also known as lipoplasty, includes the introduction of a tube (long tube) under the skin, where it moves to break the fat deposits, which are then forced. It is a penetrating procedure, with the surgeon moving the cannibus to dissolve fat and body fluid.
Cosmetic surgeons usually recommended liposuction to healthy people who have small amounts of fat who want to be removed from specific parts of the body, such as thighs, buttocks and abdomen. A more extreme form of liposuction, Mega Liposuction, removes large amounts of fat in a series of sessions.
The recovery, which lasts up to ten days, can be painful, with significant bruises and swelling that occurs around the area. The results of liposuction may not be obvious for up to six weeks.
Those who choose to undergo liposuction can wait to pay anything from $ 3,000 to about $ 8,000.
Risk business
As with any surgery, liposuction has various risks, the most serious of which is death.
Many procedures are performed with a local anesthetic, sometimes with suppression, but the feeling of the cannibus forced under the skin and in the fat layers can be very uncomfortable. For this reason, many patients choose a more dangerous general anesthetic.
There are also risks by injection of liquids in place of liposuction to help break down and suck the fat. If excessive liquid is used, the heart can be flooded with volume and can be literally drowning. Patients are also infection and risk embolism (artery obstruction).
A common side effect of liposuction is the removal of fluids from the treatment area. A woman who had undergone liposuction described this As a feeling “like a sieve … I pulled the watered blood … through the bandages”.
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There is also the risk of bad results. Many women do not say, or do not understand that they cannot get the desired result from the process. Fat can be removed unevenly, giving an abnormal appearance, or it may not be possible to remove enough fat to make a visible difference.
Unfortunately we have no evidence to show the long -term effects of liposuction on the body. Nor do we know how many people are returning for many liposuction processes.
But weight loss is both a natural and psychological process, and if liposuction is used as an alternative to lifestyle and eating modification, the results will probably be short -term.
Big profits
Cosmetic surgery is primarily a commercial effort and this intersection of medicine and the market is morally problematic.
The use of cosmetic surgery for weight loss is the buyer’s purchase, where practitioners are actively seeking patients to cure. Their work is not based on reducing the incidence of diseases or improving public health. Instead, it is based on the stress that patients feel about their bodies.
Surgeons stimulate demand through ads in magazines and online. These often promise to enhance self -esteem and make women feel good about their bodies.
Many also provide information on securing loans for cosmetic procedures, should not be readily available.
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Bad image of the body
Liposuction, as with most cosmetic surgeries, is a practice with sex, with women of all ages looking for surgical solutions to be comfortable with how they look.
Many women try hard to lose weight and can succeed, but hate the appearance of their thighs, sacks or stomach. Women who had children often want their old shape back and can resort to liposuction to achieve this. Other women believe that all diets have failed and liposuction is their last solution.
We must not deny people to choose what to do with their bodies, but we have to ask ourselves why so many Australians pay doctors to carry out dangerous procedures, the long -term effects of which are unknown.
Cosmetic surgeons’ promises that endless bodies can be improved through a simple and seamless procedure covers the reality of what is an invasive and often painful, surgery.
This is the seventh part of our series science behind weight loss. To read the other doses, follow the links below:
Part One: Diets and Weight Loss: Separation of events from fiction
Part Two: Do you want to adjust a weight loss scam? Here’s …
Part Three: Do you feel manipulated? Worried; Coordinate the advertising campaign and learn to love your body
PART FOURTH: FOOD V Exercise: What makes the biggest difference in weight loss?
Part five: An electronic tool to achieve the weight loss target (no, is not a mania diet)
Part six: Ignore the advertising campaign, real women do not “bounce” in their pre-shameless shape
Part eight: Weight and Brain Loss: Why is it difficult to control our waist expanding
Part Nine: Are Diet Pills The Silver Silver Bill for Obesity?
Part ten: Do you want to try your last fad diet? Just ask your local pharmacist
