New Body

Disease risks are an inevitable result from obesity. Excess body weight poses serious threats to the whole organism. Luckily, research has found that weight loss can have beneficial effect on the whole body system, and reduce the disease risk. An experiment at the University of Pittsburgh was carried off with 30-70 pounds overweight patients, aged under 45. Results showed that those who did reduce their body weight using diets and exercise, were healthier 18 months later. The disease risk that excess body weight poses to the organism is large. It includes diseases such as heart attacks, high blood pressure, and high levels of cholesterol. Body fat reduction is considered a major positive factor for increasing the health, especially when it comes to improvements in the cardiac structure.  The disease risks that threaten the obese people can be very dangerous, and some of them can even have a lethal outcome.

Take the risk of heart disease, for example. It is seriously increased in fat patients. If the heart disease risk is not genetically inborn, it can be totally eliminated by reducing the body weight. Research works show that obese people, who managed to reduce their overweight by 20%, diminished the risk of heart problems. Active lifestyle, a healthy diet and regular exercise can eliminate the disease risks in obese patients. Active lifestyle is also helpful in reducing the risks of various forms of cancers: prostate disease risks in men, and breast and uterine disease risks in women. Non-insulin dependent diabetes (NIDDM) can also be alleviated by fat reduction. Weight loss reduces the need for insulin substances. Genetically inclined patients also reduced the diabetes disease risk with 42 per cent, by just losing some of their overweight.

The problem comes basically from our unhealthy lifestyle. The average American gains at least one pound a year after age 25. At the age of 50, we are already 25 pounds overweight, and automatically are put in the risky group of developing serious diseases. Much of it is done by our sedentary way of living, we tend to make fewer exercise. Two out of five Americans is doing no exercise at all. Most of us barely cover the healthy minimum of daily exercise: which is 20 minutes! How can these 20 minutes be spent, is a question asked by fewer and fewer people. We are getting fatter and fatter each year. Doing no exercise not only increases the disease risk. People tend to lose their muscles, if they are not exerted. Regular exercise is created for developing the muscles, because if you don’t develop them, they will atrophy. Every muscle exertion is good for the body, otherwise muscle reduction will destroy almost all of our energy.

The saddest statistical data is estimated by the President’s Council on Physical Fitness and Sports: only one out of five Americans is doing 20- minute exercise on a regular basis, three or four times a week. In fact, the average American gets less than 50 minutes of exercise per week.

This engulfing trend poses serious threats to the society’s responsible attitude towards healthy body weight. The only solution for obese people is a healthy diet and body fitness. It is the only way to regain our freedom from the sofa, where we are stuck seven days a week, 24 hours a day. Physical fitness is of enormous significance for the proper development of our bodies, as well of our psychological well being.

Most people consider body fat only as an aesthetic problem. This is not the case, having in mind that excessive body fat can have crucial consequences for the health. Body fat deteriorates great number of essential human organs, causing dreadful effect to the heart, the blood vessels, the lungs, livers, glands, kidneys as well as the brain. So, regular exercise and healthy living standard can be essential for retaining your good shape and longevity.

Many people suffer from obesity, in America one in every three has excessive body fat. Your weight can be estimated as obese, if it is 25 percent more than your standard weight should be (in men), and 32 percent more, if you are a women. Body fat is associated as a predetermining factor for diseases such as heart disease, cancers and diabetes. Statistics shows that three in four Americans die either from cancer or from heart attacks every year. Almost 80 percent of these deaths are caused by unhealthy life style factors such as inactivity (which in itself is caused by excessive body fat) 

What are the bad effects of body fat? First and foremost, body fat poses a great threat to the breathing. If you are obese, your heart should pull harder to get the oxygen out of your lungs, and the result may be lowering of the oxygen saturation. Due to the increased work, your heart will become bigger, and this will result in high blood pressure. Blood transfer problems can also be caused from deposits of plaque into the arteries. They are formed from the excessive consumption of fat and sugary products. The arteries can be blocked from the deposits, and vital organs such as the brain suffer oxygen deprivation. This is what causes brain attacks. Your heart begins working faster to make up for the artery blockages. Thus, your blood pressure is getting higher, and the risk of heart attack is increasing. Body fat is acknowledged to cause almost 25 percent of all blood and heart problems.

Another topic of concern if the inevitable link between excessive body fat and cancer. Carcinogens are stored in body fat. They are the cause of different cancer sufferings. In men, excessive body fat can cause colon or prostate cancer. In women, the threat comes from the uterine and breast cancer.

A more frequent suffering is the dangerous combination of body fat, hormone insulin and blood sugar. The liver and other important organs are considered to store blood sugar. When they are too big, full of excessive nutrients, they tend to turn that blood sugar into fat. The fat cells soon become saturated with blood sugar and won’t take in any more. The pancreas is producing more and more insulin, which the body nor disposes of, neither uses it for a healthy purposes. The whole blood sugar regulation process is shaken to its basis. This is what makes the vessel system full of excessive sugar, and causes diabetes. It is a serious disease, which can have long lasting consequences. It can lead to heart disease, kidney problems, blindness, amputation, and even death.

Last but not least, body fat is the cause of gall bladder disease, gastro-intestinal disease, sexual dysfunction, osteoarthritiis, arterioscleroses, and stroke.

Liposuction is an operation that evokes many false predictions and expectations in most of the  patients. What should my liposuction expectations be, you may ask yourself. First of all, realistic expectations about the procedure depend on the overall health condition of the patient.

The patient must have realistic liposuction expectations: the weight loss from liposuction will not exceed 10-20 Ib. Another realistic liposuction expectation includes the cellulite loss: although it may be smoothened, it will not disappear. Diets are another point of interest. Too harsh diets may be harmful to the body after the operation: they will hamper the recovery. But patients should be in good health, which means that they should keep to a healthy diet, avoiding fat foods. Regular exercise pre-determines the success of the operation and the after-effects (nutritional deficiencies or electrolite imbalance) ,which follow postoperatively.

The patients’ liposuction expectations should be largely influenced by the rational point of view of the physician. The surgeon should keep eye on the patient’s private life and work, so that they will not suffer due to the operation. Many people expect too much from the operation: they expect it to change their lives. When this doesn’t happen, they are likely to fall into great depression. It is the surgeon’s duty to lead the patients out of their false liposuction expectations.

Another danger that false liposuction expectations put into people’s lives, is that after the liposuction the patient starts eating less. This is the case for only several weeks or months after the operation. But if the patient continues consciously diminishing his or her daily meals, that would be fatal for the health. Liposuction does not stop the hunger and the natural human appetite: it can only slightly reduce the food intake, but only for a couple of weeks. Going on with the harsh diet can have fatal consequences for the body. There is a described effect of the liposuction: that after the operation the breasts of female patients increase. This is a hopeful liposuction expectation, although you shouldn’t fully rely on it: it may, or it may not, happen.

Some patients , suffering from other illnesses, believe that tumescent liposuction can prevent the sharpening of their condition. This liposuction expectation is true to a large extent: tumescent liposuction does help patients suffering from lipoma removal, Madelung disease, axillary hyperhidrosis, evacuation of hematomas, pseudogynecomastia. Morbidly obese patients have improvement in their condition, due to tumescent liposuction as well. But megaliposuction is not at all preferable: it may have lethal end for the obese patient, due to the fluid shifts. These liposuction expectations are not overestimated, by far they have turned to be true.

Liposuction is above all a supplement operation: it does not heal obesity, it can only reduce areas, where fitness and exercise cannot have beneficial effect. The body areas affected by liposuction, include the abdomen, the upper arms, the flanks, the chin and neck area, the thighs. Before taking on any false liposuction expectations, the patient should consult with a doctor, who will thoroughly explore his or her anamnesis. Medical history, medication intake, prior operative interventions and their results, medication allergies, also full history of all diseases should be carefully examined. The patient should not be given exaggerated liposuction expectations, especially if he or she has vascular problems, bleeding illnesses and weak limphatic system. Full explanation of the operation itself, the health threatening factors should be given to the patient-to-be, so that he or she retains their common sense and estimate the situation lucidly. The insertion marks, which the operation will inevitably leave, should be carefully planned so that they are not seen.