Re: Liposuction Fails to Cut Obesity's Risk Factors

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Hi All,

Please see the pdf-available below.

The fat waists in the pictures were horrifying.

Cheers, Al Pater.

http://content.nejm.org/cgi/content/short/350/25/2549

>

> Liposuction may let doctors extract body fat, but it does not cut

the risk

> of heart disease or diabetes the way losing weight would,

researchers at

> Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis reported.

>

> Volunteers lost 12 percent of their weight -- most of it fat

tissue -- but

> their blood pressure, insulin levels, cholesterol levels and other

risk

> factors were unchanged.

>

> " They're still obese. But had they lost that same amount of

weight by

> dieting, they would have exhibited considerable improvements in

their

> cardiovascular risk factors, " said Klein of the university's

Center

> for Human Nutrition.

>

> The finding means liposuction is no substitute for weight loss

produced by

> diet and exercise, he said.

>

> Liposuction is performed on nearly 400,000 people in the country

each

> year, making it the nation's most common cosmetic operation.

>

> The study appears in today's New England Journal of Medicine.