The Myth of Body Sculpture and Weight Loss

        During the Spring Festival, the table full of delicious food symbolizes the good omen of wealth and wealth. When you are full of food and drink, your body also becomes "good luck" unconsciously. You always vow to exercise angrily after the Spring Festival, even through plastic surgery, hoping to build a strong and graceful body. This issue of "Health Column" introduces the key factors that affect body shape changes and common cosmetic surgery, which can help you to break the myth and become healthier.

        

        Everyone wants to maintain the best posture. Men want to be strong, with strong arms, broad back and chest muscles and abdominal muscles, while women want to be exquisite, convex and backward, and waistcoat line. In order to achieve these goals, many people will resort to plastic surgery.

        When people consult plastic and cosmetic surgeons, they sometimes say, "My stomach is big and my thigh is thick. I want to liposuction to lose weight.". In fact, this sentence is only half right. Liposuction is a kind of body sculpture, which can help solve the problem of large lower abdomen or thick thigh, but can not make weight loss. In other words, weight loss and diet adjustment can reduce body fat and make you slim; And liposuction sculpture can make the local body lines more beautiful.

        The proportion of body fat is the key factor to determine whether a person's body is solid or good-looking. The proportion of body fat is high, and the body looks fat; If the body fat is low, the skin is thinner, and the muscle lines under it are easier to appear, so the body looks strong. However, there are some differences between the sexes. The proportion of body fat and visceral fat in men is higher, while the proportion of subcutaneous fat in women is higher. When the body fat is too high, men are prone to beer belly, while women are mostly characterized by large hips, waist and thighs.

        Therefore, if you want to become slim and strong, you should first reduce weight and body fat ratio. By diet control or with the help of drugs, combined with exercise, you can reduce weight and body fat ratio, exercise muscle lines, increase body metabolic rate, and reduce visceral fat and subcutaneous fat.

        Body carving surgery

        After the body fat is reduced, if there is local fat accumulation or skin relaxation, "body carving" surgery can be used. Among them, the most common "liposuction" is to remove excess subcutaneous fat to reduce skin thickness and achieve the effect of local sculpture. However, if visceral fat is too thick, resulting in abdominal protrusion, the liposuction effect will be greatly reduced. In the past, most of the extracted fat was discarded directly, but in fact, it can be transplanted to other parts of the body, such as filling the statutory lines on the face, lacrimal groove, cheeks, husband and wife's palace, or transplanted to the chest (breast augmentation), buttocks (buttocks), and even some male patients hope to transplant it to the chest muscle, back muscle, arm and other parts to increase the beauty of muscle lines.

        Skin pulling operation

        After substantial weight loss or liposuction, subcutaneous fat will be significantly reduced, and skin will follow the relaxation. If the speed is too fast, the skin elasticity will not be able to recover and firm, another type of body problem will occur - skin laxity. Patients with mild symptoms can be treated by photoelectric laser or injection of polyuric acid; In serious cases, skin pulling operation is needed to tighten the subcutaneous muscular membrane and cut off the redundant skin. Facial peeling, abdominal peeling, arm (butterfly sleeve) peeling, hip lifting (hip lifting)... are all common skin pulling operations.

        Plasma technology

        In the past two years, there has been another sharp tool for tightening skin: under the protection of "helium", the collagen of subcutaneous tissue can be shrunk by "plasma" instantaneous heating. If it is combined with liposuction, it can achieve the effect of sculpting and tightening skin at the same time.

        However, we should remind you that "liposuction" is only a tool for body sculpture and cannot lose weight. If you want to make the beer belly smaller, you must lose weight and fat; However, if you want to thin your waist, lower abdomen, arms and legs, you can consider local body carving or liposuction. Detailed operation methods, benefits, risks, possible complications and postoperative care should be carefully consulted and discussed with doctors to achieve safe and healthy weight loss and body building.

        The weight reduction team of Far Eastern Memorial Hospital integrates orthopedics, family medicine, gastroenterology and surgery and other specialists to provide services with different needs, and provides customized solutions through the evaluation of individual managers. At present, it also launched the "online dietitian" service to accompany you to correct and healthy weight loss, and regain your graceful figure and healthy posture. In addition, the Oriental Petrochemical (Taiwan) Beauty Center also provides on-site health education lectures and group programs to meet the needs of the company's colleagues. For those interested, please contact (02) 7728-1766 Leader Li, or go to the official website and join Line@ http://bit.ly/3wXU4h7 Consultation.

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