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A December 2012 article in Nature suggests that for many decades, our view of fat loss and obesity has been too simple. While “calories in, calories out” has been the mantra, research on fat’s role in the body suggests that fat loss is not simple physics. Rather, it is a question of physiology. Fat is […]

Our popular culture is currently obsessed with questions of fitness, fatness, dieting, and obesity. Much of what we think we know about fat is based on decades-old hypothesis about “calories in, calories out” – the idea that if we burn more calories than we consume, then we must be burning fat from the body and […]

In our popular culture, the word “fat” often causes people to frown with disgust. Having body fat imposes a huge emotional burden on many of us. If you’ve ever cringed at hearing yourself or someone else described as “fat,” or you’ve felt frustrated and defeated as you tried to squeeze yourself into a certain outfit, […]

Forty years ago, when they were first developed, liposuction procedures carried risks that made some physicians hesitate to perform the procedure or recommend it to their patients. New techniques quickly addressed these concerns, however. For many years, liposuction has been a low risk and highly effective procedure when an experienced physician performs it. The first […]

The Historic Origins of Liposuction: Advances and Mistakes Today, liposuction is one of the most commonly-performed cosmetic surgeries in the United States. But did you know that the procedure itself is only about 40 years old? An Italian doctor named Giorgio Fischer developed the first liposuction procedure in 1974. In 1978, a team of French […]