The body contouring industry has boasted about the destruction of fat cells, but is that a good thing? Fat tissue is crucial for many metabolic and hormonal processes. The number of fat cells is tightly regulated and remains relatively constant during adulthood. Artificial destruction of fat cells upsets the body’s natural equilibrium and causes it to compensate by producing new fat cells or expanding existing ones (in other areas of the body). In the long term, it’s likely that the fat, which was unnaturally eliminated, will reappear.