I wanted to love this book. I was excited that a book was written about fat, an important endocrine organ. Some good points were made alongside some significantly misleading information.On page 31, there is a story about an obese girl named Layla who had liposuction done - this was portrayed as a good thing, which it is not. A member of her medical team pronounced that Layla had an endocrine defect after the liposuction without taking into account that the act of subcutaneous fat removal itself creates more visceral fat and changes metabolism.The kind of information in this article -- https://roguehealthandfitness.com/dangers-of-liposuction -- would have been useful in order to save quality of life, and lives of those who are considering adipose removal, whether medically recommended or not. It's time for the medical community to catch up to science and the overwhelming negative outcomes for people who trust their doctors to remove fat cells, thus upsetting the metabolic, hormonal, and greater interconnected physiological apple cart.There was a concern mentioned throughout the book about how to be able to eat snacks and sweets without worry of getting fat; this narrative was off track for me.On page 140, it is mentioned that, "Even small changes in hormone distribution can have dramatically different effects on our fat." I agree with this. Therefore, this book about fat missed a prime opportunity to explain how fat removal, or destruction of fat cells by cooling, chemical, or laser methods, are harmful in the long-term and make well people worse.On page 167, the author writes, "Remember the liposuction patients in chapter 5, who regained fat in the belly after having it sucked out of the buttocks? Patients who exercised regularly didn't gain back this visceral fat." In the Hernandez study from UC Denver, the women had adipose tissue removed from more than just their buttocks and the remaining fat cells, (including visceral fat cells), DO get larger after fat cells are removed -- regardless of diet and exercise. This doesn't mean that one ought to give up healthy diet and exercise, but the truth is, liposuction creates negative long-term health and contour changes.Since 2012, I have studied the negative long-term effects of adipose removal via surgery, or the burning or freezing of fat cells via the non-surgical methods. Fat regulates hormones. When some of those cells are removed, the hormonal make-up of the body is changed. This is detrimental to the organism. A book entitled, "The Secret Life of Fat," ought to have gotten this right rather than misleading people.On page 202-203, stem cells are mentioned. If one harvests stem cells by doing liposuction, it is a "Borrowing from Peter to pay Paul," scenario at best. Death, disability, disfigurement, and iatrogenically caused disease processes are all by-products of liposuction. Any kind of liposuction. Again, in studying this topic since 2012, I have witnessed criminal cover-ups in lawsuits against "top" board certified plastic surgeons who have destroyed the bodies, healthy, and lives of people doing adipose removal, which is an innately bad procedure based on the biology of fat."The Secret Life of Fat," talked more about how to be able to eat sweets - which aren't even good for a body - than getting the crucial scientific information correct.******************************Here is some quick information about liposuction:Liposuction is often a part of breast reduction, breast reconstruction, stem cell harvesting, abdominoplasty, mommy makeovers, fat transfer for face lifts, etc.In Clinical Anesthesiology, October 4, 2012, Michael Vlessides wrote the article, “As Liposuction Deaths Mount, Study Exposes Cracks in Safety.” He said, “A quarter-century after the nation’s plastic surgeons received what amounted to carte blanche to perform liposuction, a new analysis suggests that the procedure is no safer than it was back then. Making matters worse, the researchers said, the surgery has been oversimplified in the popular media... Throw into the mix an ample supply of seemingly unscrupulous physicians and state regulators who do not appear ready to crack down on them, and the result is a recipe for national disaster.”The America Society of Anesthesiologists said that “California’s liposuction regulations do not prevent patient deaths,” and “The regulations specify requirement by volume of fat removed. These are too high: patients die with even lower volumes.”The death rate of liposuction is greater than other surgical procedures, and it causes other long-term harm. The procedure is financially driven and those performing do not disclose the true risks involved. Many people are coerced into having liposuction through false imagery and strong advertising. Plastic surgeons and their boards put out propaganda and misleading short-term results re: liposuction.The Health Technology Advisory Committee, a non-partisan group formed to study liposuction harm, said:“Death and disfigurement due to liposuction should be a matter for serious public concern."“Since liposuction is an elective, pay-out-of-pocket procedure, data is not collected as to how many procedures are performed, the complexity of procedures, or the resultant complications.”“Clear, important statistics on fatalities and complications from private offices or surgeon-owned surgery centers may be withheld.”“The increasing number of liposuction procedures has led to a growing number of iatrogenic fat tissue deformities, in addition to those of traumatic and disease-related nature.”Chris Centeno, M.D. says: "...harvesting fat is a violent affair... you need to first use a scalpel… the whole goal is disrupting large amounts of normal tissue. In fact, the stem cells live around the blood vessels, so you have to chew up as many blood vessels in the fat as possible to get a good stem cell yield. This involves placing a small wand like device under the skin and into the fat and moving it back and forth (through much resistance) to break apart large sections of tissue and break up large swaths of tissue with suction, sucking the broken tissue and blood vessels into a syringe. You haven’t seen invasive until you’ve seen a lipo-suction!"