So we know that diets don't work long-term. And we know bariatric surgery doesn't work long-term. Now, we know liposuction doesn't work long-term, either. A study recently released showed that over the year following liposuction on the hips and thighs, new fat cells were created to replace the ones lost, distributed over different areas of the body (they're theorizing that it's because the liposuction destroys the supporting structure under the skin where the fat cells would normally grow).
Fat bodies cannot be willed, fooled, or altered thin. When are we going to accept this? When are we going to stop shaming people for a product of genetics and biology? When are we, as a culture, going to take science seriously when it says, over and over again, No, this weight-loss thing just doesn't work, no matter how you do it?
But you know what the worst part of the linked article was? The control group had been promised a reduced rate on their surgeries if they still wanted them, in exchange for waiting the time of the study before getting liposuction done.
And when it was time, even after they had been told the study results, more than half of them went ahead and got the surgery anyway.
My heart breaks for them.
