AccessMyLibrary provides FREE access to over 30 million articles from top publications available through your library.
Create a link to this page
Copy and paste this link tag into your Web page or blog:
Byline: --JOAN KRON
A new, noninvasive way to obliterate fat was unveiled at a recent meeting of the American Society for Laser Medicine & Surgery. Known as cold fat destruction or cryolipolysis, it uses a plate that chills fat deep within the body, killing the fat cells and allowing them to be metabolized, while surrounding skin, muscle, and nerves are unaffected. After two months, the result of a study testing a variety of methods using Yucatan pigs (a breed with surprising similarities in skin and fat to humans) was an approximate 30 percent reduction in fat cells in one of them after one treatment in a variety of ...