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Article: `VISCERAL' FAT REMOVAL PROMPTS HOPE
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- April 17, 2004
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The patient was neither obese enough nor desperate enough for
stomach-stapling surgery. But he had raging diabetes and a daunting
load of the most dangerous fat: the "visceral" kind that surrounds
internal organs and swells pot bellies, inviting heart disease and
stroke.
So he chose to undergo an experimental operation based on a
radical proposition: that simply slicing out a hefty chunk of his
visceral fat, by removing a curtainlike flap of internal abdominal
fat called the omentum, might help with his diabetes and other health
problems.
Unlike liposuction, which sucks out fat just under the skin, the
omentum operation has no cosmetic effect, and is not aimed at weight
loss. Rather, it ...