A team from the University of Colorado School of Medicine (United States) have shown thatpeople who undergo liposuction begin to accumulate fat just one year after the intervention, although this is redistributed by different areas of the body. This is stated in the latest issue of the magazineObesity, after a study with which they have tried to dismantle the false myth that liposuction, which began in 1974, allows you to get rid of fat forever.
“The fact that the fat comes back is of great interest to scientists, as it shows thatbody fat levels are regulated by certain mechanisms that are currently unknown“, recognized Robert H. Eckel, one of the authors of this study.
Eckel and his team first tested and confirmed this hypothesis in rodents, after observing that fat returns when it is removed, in the same way that humans regain their weight after losing weight from various causes. “We believe that eThe brain somehow knows the amount of fat in the bodyand it tries to regulate its presence so that it is always the same “, explains Eckel, highlighting” why the prevention of obesity is so important “.
The study of this fat recovery is often difficult to analyze, as it requires the use of expensive techniques. However, Eckel and his team have carried out the first randomized and controlled trial in which these parameters are measured, which has allowed us to observe howreturns and redistributes fat, both around the abdomen and around the shoulders and triceps of the arms. “Liposuction is not a weight loss procedure,” Eckel insists.
