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When girls transform into women, they do so largely because of increased levels of estrogen. Estrogen is partly responsible for the classic womanly hourglass shape with a smaller waist and larger hips. But sometimes women feel like they've got a little too much of a good thing.

Women aren't the only ones who use diet and exercise to improve their looks. Men do it too, and sometimes they come up against their own insecurities about what diet and exercise can and cannot fix.

For example, a woman may work hard to get in shape and eat a healthy diet and still have excess fat deposits on her thighs. She may have three beautiful children, but she probably also has some stretched out skin over her abdomen that can only tighten up so much on its own.

The situation with men is similar. A man may have abs you could bounce a quarter off of, but somehow still have excess fat under his chin. Men, too can be faced with excess or "loose" skin around the abdomen after significant weight loss. And sometimes genetics play a role. A man may have the same deposits of fat along his upper torso that the other men in his family have, for example.

These are the cases when liposuction and abdominoplasty (tummy tuck surgery) can help.

Liposuction is the surgical removal of fat that diet and exercise fail to budge. Though the procedure has been around for decades, techniques have been improved and today the results are better than ever. There are, however, risks associated with liposuction, and they include uneven contouring, rippling of skin, nerve damage, pigmentation changes, infection, blood clots, heat injury from ultrasound (in ultrasound assisted technique), persistent pain, fat clots, and very rarely lung and heart complications.

Abdominoplasty is surgery to cope with excess skin and flab around the middle. Women and men have it, but more women do than men. The reason it is more common in women is that childbirth is a major cause of the kind of flab and loose skin that diet and exercise can only do so much with. The possible risks associated with tummy tuck surgery include persistent scars, infection, fluid accumulation, blood clots, numbness or changes in sensation of skin over the abdomen, skin discoloration, asymmetry, pain, nerve damage, and (very rarely) deep vein thrombosis, heart, or lung complications.

There are limits to what diet and exercise can do to change a person's shape. While no one can deny that a good exercise program can work wonders for the human body's appearance, there are aspects of appearance that are difficult or impossible to change. Otherwise healthy and fit people who for whatever reason have isolated stubborn fat deposits are the best candidates for liposuction and abdominoplasty. And anyone having either of these types of surgery should be aware that poor habits and weight gain can offset the positive results gained from plastic surgery.

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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