crisp Posted January 28, 2005 Share Posted January 28, 2005 Liposuction, one type of weight-control surgery, may seem like a simple way to remove excess fat around the waistline, which is most associated with health risks like diabetes and heart disease. Yet in a recent study of obese women, liposuction that removed large amounts of waistline fat did not lower blood sugar and insulin levels or biomarkers of inflammation. Please be extra careful when chosing surgery!!!! Link to post Share on other sites
Barby Posted January 28, 2005 Share Posted January 28, 2005 Liposuction is a cosmetic procedure, hardly considered a "weight loss surgery" Who would think it would reduce blood sugar or help your health in anyway. I don't understand that, in order to achieve lower blood sugar and be healthier you have to change your way of eating, and exercise, ect. Liposuction causes you to do neither of these things! Link to post Share on other sites
Author crisp Posted January 28, 2005 Author Share Posted January 28, 2005 Other weight-control surgeries for obese people alter a person’s digestive process to cause the body to lose weight over time. One of the surgeries reduces the size of the stomach. Another type, called a gastric bypass operation, forces food to bypass sections of the digestive tract, reducing the amount of calories and nutrients that the body can absorb. Bypass operations tend to produce more weight loss, but they also pose the most side effects, including nutritional deficiencies. Both kinds of surgery, however, are significantly more effective than medications or counseling. I'm talking about considering your oportunties, not about how bad weight loss surgery is! Link to post Share on other sites
Barby Posted January 28, 2005 Share Posted January 28, 2005 Hey I KNOW ALL ABOUT these surgeries from PERSONAL experience! I HAD THE GASTRIC BYPASS SURGERY and it worked awesome! SO I do have WISE comments! Thanks very much! BUT if you mean for people who would qualify for Liposuction to instead consider RNY (or GBS) Link to post Share on other sites
Author crisp Posted January 28, 2005 Author Share Posted January 28, 2005 Barby, I'm very glad it worked wonders for you. As I do NOT need or intend to have ths type of thing done to me, I am, of course, not as well informed. This thread isn't about: "does surgery work?". Considering they increased 500% the last few years, I think it's because they do work. I want this thread to be about thinking in terms of risk. In term of options. Making people aware of these aspects. Not all people who undergo liposuction need it. Sometimes it's just the disorted image of oneself. So before taking such radical measure, I thought that a thread on just talking about that could be useful. I know it is a itchy subject. But because it is sensitive, I think it may help. And my comment was due to the fact that the I never said anything my own, I only took quotes of the article written by people of the American Institute for Cancer Research in Washington. Talking about the faults of a model is not the same with denying the model itsself. Link to post Share on other sites
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