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You Can’t Hide From Fat

Liposuction fan, we've got some bad news.

If you suck fat out of your thighs and bottom it will return in your abdomen. If you suck the fat out of your abdomen it will show up on your chest and arms. Bottom line? After liposuction—the fat always comes back—just somewhere else.

Body fat is a simple situation of storage. When you eat more calories than you can burn in a day, the leftovers get turned into fat and sent off to storage sites in your belly, hips and thighs.

Liposuction is an expensive surgical procedure that literally sucks the fat out of areas on your body. It can leave you looking trimmer and smoother and pounds lighter.

If you don't eat less to correspond with your new smaller lighter size, the fat will simply come back again. But it won’t come back to the same places because those fat cells were destroyed when they got sucked out of your body.

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Gastric Bypass vs. Gastric Banding: Which is Better?

Gastric bypass and banding safe, but both fraught with complications.

Anyone more than 100 pounds overweight or with a BMI greater than 40 is considered morbidly obese. Gastric bypass and adjustable gastric banding are the two most commonly performed procedures for the treatment of morbid obesity. A recent randomized trial demonstrated that gastric bypass results in greater weight loss than gastric banding over a four year period (68% vs. 45% of excess weight). Researchers reported that there were more complications with bypass than with banding, as well. Cost was significantly higher for bypass, also.