Wherever I turn people are wary of stuff like liposuction of other things like gastric ballooning. Why
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Answer: there isn’t really a strong reason that fat *can’t* be removed. When liposuction was invented, a limit was placed on how much could be taken out as both a crude number and a percentage of a person’s total body fat. Whichever was the lower number was the limit.
That limit has never really been challenged since. The reasoning at the time was that a person could not tolerate that much loss of fat without going into shock.
We now know that not to be true, based on trauma studies and radical interventions for diseases like Necrotizing fasciitis. A person can have a great deal of their body fat removed with very limited consequences, particularly using modern methods.
The main issue is that fat removal is not seen as a cure, only symptomatic treatment. It is a radical procedure to perform, to literally cut someone out of their fat. If it is not going to cure an underlying condition, there is very little impetus to perform such an operation.
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