Liposuction May Help Your Heart

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liposuction may help your heartA new study shows that Liposuction May Help Your Heart.

The study’s results show:

Within three months of the slenderizing procedure, patients’ triglyceride levels had dropped an average of 43 percent

This is great news for your heart. Unfortunately, this is yet another example of treating the symptom instead of getting to the root of the problem.

The procedure also led to a decrease in the numbers of white blood cells circulating in the blood, Swanson said. And this suggests that the removal of fat is reducing inflammation, which is also thought to be involved in the development of cardiovascular disease.

This is a good fact to know. Cardiovascular disease is usually caused by an inflammation of the arterial walls. While this study is about liposuction, you should instead take this tip from the excerpt – reducing body fat mass reduces arterial inflammation, which lowers your chance of cardiovascular disease.

One thing we don’t know yet is whether the effects will be long lasting, Mehta said. “I’d like to see what happens at six months, and at a year.”

I would also like to see what happens in a year. My guess is that since we are just treating the symptoms (obesity), instead of the problem (unhealthy lifestyle), the patients will eventually put the weight back on. And then once again, they will back on the road to cardiovascular disease.

Forget the liposuction. There is no easy way to lose weight. It takes hard work and reprogramming of your lifestyle. Treat the problem, not the symptom.

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About Tony Schober

Healthy living curator, blogger, foodie, certified personal trainer, husband, & step-dad to 3. Founder of Coach Calorie. Hates scales.

  • http://www.bloomtofit.com Srdjan – Bloom to Fit

    Thanks for sharing this study man. Like every other study done, I guess it comes down to seeing what the longer term effects are.

    • Coach Calorie

      True Srdjan, short term results can be misleading. My guess is the majority these patients will eventually put the weight back on.

  • Jeannette Laframboise

    Interesting info. I do agree with you that it is hard to say what the long term results will be. I think people are already doing things to improve their health and the liposuction sort of would go along with that. For example, I know people that have lost a lot of weight but then have lipo to clear up that last bit that is being stubborn. Perhaps the change in their lifestyle and exercise has more to do with that than the lipo itself. Most docs will not give lipo unless someone is already on a program that involves diet and exercise so…just another one of those wait and see studies I suppose….