subject: Liposuction Cannot Replace Exercise [print this page] Most of the time when someone wants to know about your physical health, one of the first things that they ask is about your level of physical activity. Regular exercise and a sufficient level of activity increases your overall health by increasing your strength and your endurance and by improving your circulation.
Exercise is also good for one's peace of mind. Getting enough physical activity tends to help one to blow off steam and be able to avoid constant stress or worry. Exercise can increase the level of endorphins one's body produces, which can make a person feel happier. Exercise improves one's sleep, one's general level of happiness and one's overall quality of life.
Of course, one of the things that exercise is best known for is its help in losing weight. When people talk about trying to lose weight, they're typically talking about one of two things: diet or exercise. Because the cosmetic surgery liposuction (also known as lipoplasty and suction lipectomy) helps to remove fat from the body, some people view it as a replacement for exercise. This is not true.
Lipoplasty can be a very successful surgery in its own right. In just a couple of hours, this surgery can remove something like ten pounds of fat, and it can do it in highly focused ways. It can take the pounds off just where you want them off. For people who have tried losing weight and who are overall very healthy but who have trouble getting that few pounds off of their hips, it can be a godsend. The surgery usually doesn't require anything more than local anesthesia, and patients can usually return to work in just a few days.
However, given that all that this is true, the surgery still cannot provide all of the positive health benefits associated with exercise. It cannot increase your heart health, make you stronger, increase your overall health or make you feel younger.
Also, while a lipoplasty can help you to get the pounds off, what will keep them off is your own habits. Imagine a completely sedentary person who lives off of fast food, never exercises and who spends all of his time at a desk job or relaxing and watching TV. Suppose this person gets lipoplasty and loses 8 pounds. How long do you suppose that weight will stay off, if this person makes no changes to his life?
Also, even if the person does manage to keep looking good, will he actually be any healthier than if he hadn't undergone the surgery? No. This person will still be at exactly the same risk for heart disease, and his overall quality of life will not go up. Although liposuction can be effective, it cannot replace healthy habits.