Cellulite
Everything You Need To Know About Fighting Cellulite
Cellulite is everyone’s enemy, it is ugly and embarrassing.
However, it is still controllable as long as you are willing
to implement dietary and lifestyle changes.
Everybody knows what cellulite looks like because it's so
easily identified. It looks like the skin of an orange or
worse, cottage cheese. It has a unique pattern and it generally
appears on one of 3 parts of the body, which are the hips,
the buttocks or the abdomen.
Cellulite is far more common in women than in men. It varies
in intensity from mild to extreme and, contrary to popular
belief; it is not a medical condition at all. It is just the
term used to describe the visible effect on the epidermis
of excess fat deposits being stored just below its surface.
What Causes Cellulite?
Cellulite is not usually an issue until the years preceding
puberty, which is when a young girl's hormone levels surge
and those hormones start to send messages to various parts
of the body signaling the need to begin changing. One of these
changes involves the formation of a layer of fat within the
innermost layer of skin called the subcutaneous fat layer.
During the formation of this fat layer, a patterned structure
within this layer is created, the purpose of which is to contain
stored fat. The pattern will resemble the letter 'X' which
creates the dimpling effect when there is too much fat stored
and the fat deposits begin to bulge. The pattern that's created
in a man's body is different from the women. It's looks more
like column so even when there's excess fat being stored it's
usually not visible in the same manner.
Normal levels of fat stored in this innermost layer of the
subcutaneous will not have the external dimpling effect because
there's enough space for all the fat deposits. So really,
every woman has the tendency to develop some degree of cellulite
when fat begins to build up
Cellulite Treatment
Even though clothing is a way to cover the cellulite, but
most people cannot remain in long pants all the time. You
could spend hundreds of dollars trying all different cellulite
treatment products and not get anywhere close to the same
results you'll get by treating cellulite naturally. The diet
and exercise will help, which is also the only way cellulite
will be less noticeable, exercise will help you shrink the
size of the fat cells stored in the subcutaneous layer so
they will not bulge.
Besides exercise, you should keep a sensible diet that's
heavy on fruits, vegetables, whole grains, protein and low
in sodium and saturated fat will put you on the road to recovery.
If you want to be more specific, you can combine moderate
and regular exercise with the nutritious diet and do exercises
that focus on the areas where cellulite appears like walking
or biking. In a few months time of persistent habit, this
embarrassing skin problem should be well under control.
Apart from all that, massage is also one of the ways to help
reduce cellulite because the motions help break down the stored
fat deposits.
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