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Wouldn't it be nice if when the liposuction machine sucked out your fat, it dumped your risk of heart disease and diabetes too? A study of obese women showed that liposuction had no effect on diabetes. It could be that reducing calories is more important or the doctor might have sucked the wrong fat. Wouldn't it be nice if when the liposuction machine sucked out your fat, it dumped your risk of heart disease and diabetes into the bucket along with those fat cells? It makes sense that if having fat in bad places raises your health risk, then removing it, even forcibly, is good. The evidence from weight loss studies is that many of the benefits seem to come from restricting calories rather than the fat loss but separating the effects is hard. Liposuction is a way of losing fat without changing calorie intake. In a small study, obese women, some of whom had type 2 or adult onset diabetes, had around nine or 10 kg of subcutaneous fat liposucked from their abdomens. Unfortunately it had no effect on the diabetes, the actions of insulin or blood fat levels. There is more than one possible explanation. It could prove that reducing energy intake counts more than fat loss. Or, the doctor might have sucked the wrong fat. Some people think the dangerous fat cells are those deep inside the body next to the gut rather than under the skin. Isn't it boring how it always comes down to eating less?
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