Why do you still have to exercise after liposuction?

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Liposuction can help remove excess fat from many different areas of the body. But new research shows that removing fat from the abdomen or having liposuction can increase the risk of dangerous belly fat or visceral fat. This type of fat is stored around organs deep in the abdomen and increases the risk of cardiovascular disease and diabetes. However, exercise after liposuction can help counteract this effect.

1. The benefits of exercise after liposuction

Fat and fat cells are committed to permanent removal during abdominal liposuction. This means that fat cells will be significantly reduced in the treated area and fat will not reappear there.
However, fat cells in other parts of the body can continue to grow. The new study included 36 women in Brazil who had low-volume abdominal liposuction. Half of these women participated in a 4-month exercise regimen starting 2 months after the end of surgery. Six months later, the women who did not exercise showed a 10% increase in visceral fat, compared with the women who exercised three times a week. The women who exercised three times a week began each session with a 5-minute warm-up followed by strength training and up to 40 minutes on the treadmill.

2. Skinny people gain weight after liposuction

Plastic surgeon Sherrell J. Aston, reminds all of her patients that liposuction is a cosmetic procedure that doesn't necessarily result in permanent weight loss. He is chair of the department of plastic surgery at Manhattan Eye, Ear and Throat Hospital in New York. "We can make you lose weight because we remove large amounts of fat when indicated, but liposuction is a contouring procedure. Liposuction can slim and tone your figure. one person. "You have to do all the right things to keep this up. Without a healthy diet and a good exercise regimen, you will gain the weight back," says Aston.

Dr Pankaj Tiwari also agrees: “The findings highlight the importance of exercise after liposuction and a healthy diet to go with it to prevent weight gain and maintain the results of liposuction surgery. Belly Fat. He is an assistant professor of plastic surgery at The Ohio State University School of Medicine in Columbus. “If you take fat from one area, your body compensates in other areas,” says Tiwari. "We gain weight for metabolic reasons, and those hormonal processes are not altered by abdominoplasty." Dr. Lisa M. Donofrio also agrees with the above opinion. She is a clinical associate professor of dermatology at Yale University School of Medicine in New Haven, Conn. Various studies have documented weight gain in different body parts after abdominal liposuction. “This is the first article about fat re-forming in the abdomen,” she said.
Donofrio says: “No one really knows why this happens, but the theory is that the body tries to maintain fat homeostasis. This refers to the amount of fat required to fuel our body.
Both Donofrio and Aston agree that the new study may be too short to really deal with weight regain and weight redistribution after liposuction. However, "we don't see many patients coming back with excess fat in other areas of the body." President of the American Society of Aesthetic Plastic Surgeons, Leo McCafferty, MD, said. "Most are in good shape and have spots of spots that don't respond to diet and exercise." He recommends that his patients start or restart their exercise regimen about six weeks after liposuction. “This can really enhance the results of abdominal liposuction,” he says.
The above is considered as experience after abdominal liposuction, you need to pay attention and follow to get the desired body shape as well as minimize the appearance of fat cells in other areas of the body.

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Reference source: webmd.com