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By: Becky Foster
Created on 14th May 2011
A recent medical study in
the US from the University of Colorado (Fat
Redistribution Following Suction Lipectomy: Defence of Body Fat and Patterns of
Restoration) suggests that fat
liposuctioned from a woman's hips, supposedly to be removed entirely, will
relocate to the belly area within one year of the surgery. This surely comes as
bad news to patients who have paid large sums of money to have fat removed from
their bodies for reasons both physical and emotional, only to have the fat
cells move to another area.
The study, published in research journal Obesity shows that when one fat cell dies, the body manufactures another fat cell in order to replace it, with each fat cell having a life span of about seven years. The newly manufactured fat cells will then relocate to another place in the body, because the liposuction surgery will have destroyed the subcutaneous structure where the original fat cells were.
Does this mean that all the physical and emotional trauma of undergoing liposuction surgery is for nothing? It must certainly come as disappointing news for those patients who feel that they will merely have traded one fatty area of their body for another, thus creating additional emotional stress relating to body image issues.
Despite the findings of this study, the findings of this research does not appear to have affected people's decision to look into liposuction as the answer to getting rid of their unwanted body fat.
