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March 1, 2010
Is There Anything Cosmetic Surgery Can’t Fix?
If you’ve spent any time in front of a television in the past few years you’ve no doubt seen shows like Extreme Makeover and wondered if there was anything cosmetic surgery couldn’t fix. The answer is, “Of course.” Cosmetic surgery can’t fix low self-esteem even if it does provide a temporary psychological boost. Cosmetic surgery can’t fix a broken marriage, and it can’t fix a person’s desire for attention from one special person, whether that person is a significant other, spouse, or parent. And cosmetic surgery can’t even fix a person’s desire to have the perfect face and/or body. Cosmetic surgery addicts are a testament to that fact.
Cosmetic surgery can’t fix the aging process. It can help a person reset their clock by a few years, but aging will take place on altered as well as unaltered faces and bodies. While some procedures are less noticeable than others, any surgical procedure will leave scars, sometimes invisibly, and sometimes visibly. Cosmetic surgery can’t take 40-year-old skin and make it look exactly like 20-year-old skin. Cosmetic surgeons use scalpels, not magic wands. It can’t fix a gnawing desire to always look younger. That fixation can outlast numerous surgical procedures, head to toe.
There is a lot that cosmetic surgery can do. It can repair damage from accidents and cancer surgery. It can fix back pain caused by years of carrying around breasts that are too heavy for a woman’s frame. It can mostly restore a breast that was lost to cancer. It can suction fat from thighs and hips, resulting in inches lost that wouldn’t budge otherwise. It can tighten abdominal skin and muscles that have been stretched by weight gain or pregnancy, and it can remove excess skin from those who have lost massive amounts of weight.
Cosmetic surgery can’t make you happy enough that you’ll like your boring, un-fulfilling job. It can’t make up for your choosing the wrong person to marry. It can’t make your teenage children be nice to you if they’re not inclined to. It can’t fix grief, depression, or addiction.
Many people in today’s world think that any “problem” that can be addressed by throwing money at it goes from being a “problem” to being merely an “expense.” It is extremely easy to get into this mindset,
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particularly for people who spend a lot of time watching television, seeing plastic surgery programs and makeover programs, and noticing how happy the participants are with their new nose, or teeth, or breasts, or thighs. Young adults may make fun of the “vain” people who treat themselves to liposuction or a nose job, but many of them end up getting plastic surgery themselves anyway.
It is extremely easy to lose sight of what a real human body looks like after years of being presented with perfectly proportioned bodies that look great in clothes and attract just the right amount of attention from admirers. It’s all too easy to forget that bodies come in many shapes, and the shape that is hot this year might well be passé next year. And cosmetic surgery can’t change that. It can only adapt to changing consumer demand.
By: Leonard Dawson
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Leonard Dawson is a freelance article writer who writes for Cosmetic Surgery Guru about current issues, technology and news within the cosmetic surgery market.
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Exercise may not boost obese teens' metabolism – Yahoo! News
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) –
A few months of moderate aerobic exercise may not rev up obese teenagers' ability to burn calories, even though it may increase thinner teens' ability to burn dietary fat, new research suggests.
In a study of 28 obese and normal-weight teenagers, researchers found that after 12 weeks of treadmill and exercise-bike sessions, the heavier teens showed no changes in their bodies' calorie- and fat-burning throughout the day.
Their thinner peers likewise showed no changes in daily calorie expenditure. However, their dietary-fat metabolism did increase, on average.
The findings, reported in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, do not mean obese kids should throw in the towel on exercise, given previous research. In an earlier study of the same workout regimen, the researchers found improvements in obese teenagers' sensitivity to the blood-sugar-regulating hormone insulin; decreased insulin sensitivity often occurs before type 2 diabetes.
The teens also showed reductions in the deep layers of abdominal fat that surround the organs — the body fat that is considered especially important in the risk of diabetes and other health problems.
So together, the findings suggest that obese teenagers can get “important health benefits” from aerobic exercise even without changes in their calorie and fat metabolism, according to Dr. Agneta L. Sunehag, an associate professor of pediatrics at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston and the lead researcher on the new study.
In an email, she also pointed out that the study looked at one moderate-exercise regimen alone; the participants did not alter their eating habits or lose weight. It's possible, Sunehag said, that exercise along with weight loss would affect obese teens' metabolism.
It's a common perception that exercise not only burns calories during the workout, but also leads to lasting changes in a person's metabolism at rest. However, studies suggest that any effects may depend on the type and intensity of exercise, and on a person's body composition.
Recent research has found, for example, that a few months of strength training may increase resting metabolism and daily calorie- and fat- burning in overweight women. Another study found that any exercise — strength training or aerobic — was related to a higher resting metabolism in women, but only for those who regularly worked out at a high intensity.
Until now, though, little has been known about the effects of exercise on obese teenagers' calorie- and fat-burning, Sunehag said.
The study included 15 obese and 13 normal-weight Hispanic-American teenagers who completed a 12-week exercise program — walking on a treadmill or using an exercise bike for 30 minutes, four times per week.
At the beginning and end of the study, the researchers measured the teens' total calorie expenditure over 24 hours. Each participant stayed in a room where a device measured their oxygen consumption and carbon dioxide production; that allows researchers to estimate a person's calorie expenditure, as well as the proportions of fat, carbohydrates and protein they are burning.
In general, neither obese nor normal-weight teenagers showed changes in their overall calorie expenditure at the end of the study, but the thinner teens did show an increase in fat burning.
The reason for that discrepancy is not clear, according to Sunehag's team, but studies of adults have had similar findings. One possibility, the researchers suggest, is that obese teenagers have an “impaired metabolic flexibility” that blunts their fat-burning response to exercise.
SOURCE: American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, online January 27, 2010.
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ok, plastic surgery has come a long way. If i had the cash to get it done then i would.
Comment by Cosmetic Surgery — June 8, 2010 @ 4:11 pm
I just read through this article and had to give you thanks personally. Precise and concise!
Comment by Lannie Cernansky — June 25, 2010 @ 9:04 pm