A Report on Liposuction

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Gina Kolata, When Thighs Lose, Belly Finds; A study on liposuction confirms the patients' worst fears: that weight loss is temporary. New York Times, May 1, 2011 (title in print).
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/01/weekinreview/01kolata.html?scp=1&sq=kolata%20fat&st=cse

Excerpt in the window of the print: The body 'defends' its fat, researchers found, adding back whatever had been suctioned outm but in a new area of the body.

My comment:
(a) presto (interjection; Italian, quick, quickly, from Latin praestus ready):
"used to indicate the sudden appearance or occurrence of something often as if by magic"
www.m-w.com
(b) The report syas, "It [liposuction] has become the most popular plastic surgery."

Not so.

USA Today Snapshot--you know, the illustrations at teh lower left corner of front page of one of its four sections daily--recently published the following statistics.
(i) 2010 top five female cosmetic surgical procedures:
Nose Reshaping > Eyelid Surgery > Liposuction > Breast Reduction in Men > Hair Transplantation
(ii) 2010 top five female cosmetic surgical procedures:
Breast Augmentation > Nose Reshaping > Liposuction > Eyelid Surgery > Tummy Tuck

, from
2010 Plastic Surgery Procedural Statistics. American Society of Plastic Surgeons.
http://www.plasticsurgery.org/News-and-Resources/Statistics.html

(iii) Footnote: On the same web page, click "Procedures by Ethnicity" and you will find
"Most commonly requested cosmetic surgical [as opposed to minimally-invasive] procedures for ethnic patients":
* African-American Liposuction > Nose Reshaping > Breast Reduction
* Asian-American Breast Augmentation > Nose Reshaping > Eyelid Surgery
* Hispanic: Breast Augmentation > Liposuction > Nose Reshaping

It is often reported in American media that Asian Americans are into eyelid surgery, creating "double eyelid" from "single eyelid." But Caucasian in US also elect it, perhaps for different purposes, such as lower eyelid "bag" removal and wrinkle reduction.
blepharoplasty
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blepharoplasty

(c) There is no way to assess teh academic article, which appears in Obesity journal, published by Obesity Society (click the Publications tag in the top horizontal bar).
http://www.obesity.org

The abstract of the article:
Hernandez TL et al, Fat Redistribution Following Suction Lipectomy: Defense of Body Fat and Patterns of Restoration. Obesity, _: _ (2011).
http://www.nature.com/oby/journal/vaop/ncurrent/abs/oby201164a.html

(i) The article is not published in print YET.

Advance Online Publication. Obesity journal.
http://www.nature.com/oby/journal/vaop/ncurrent/index.html#28042011
(the article at issue was published online accessible to journal scubscribers on Apr 7, 2011)
(ii) It should be noted that liposuction were done on "nonobese women" (BMI means: 24-25) in two small groups (14 in experimental group and 18 in control group; which may be too small) and that TOTAL body fat "decreased by [merely] 2.1%" in the experimental (liposuction) group.

One thing is thus for sure. The silhouettes are caricatures, exagerated to make the point presented by the authors.
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