Cellulite Treatments - Vital Facts And Information
By Ken Black, Tue Jan 10th

Cellulite is a common term used to describe overfilled fatpockets right under your skin. These are fat cells that havebecome enlarged causing these cells to take up more spacebetween the skin's connective tissues than normal. The fat thenexpands these spaces resulting in the overlying skin dimpling,often called the orange peel effect.

It appears in ninety percent of post-adolescent women and israrely seen in men. Common areas where cellulite is found, arethe thighs, buttocks, and the abdomen. Contrary to popularbelief, cellulite is not related to obesity, since it occurs inoverweight, normal, and thin women. Cellulite causes many imageproblems and many women avoid wearing short skirts or shortsbecause of it.

Some of the contributing factors for developing cellulite are:

Heredity. However, you can still do a lot to fight cellulite.

Not drinking enough water. Water helps flush toxins and wastefrom your body. Drink seven to eight glasses of water a day.

Diet. Poor eating habits (alcohol, caffeine, spicy or fattyfoods) contribute to the formation of cellulite because thetoxins they produce get trapped in the fatty tissue. Saturatedfats block the arteries and get trapped in the tissue as well,preventing sufficient waste and toxin elimination.

Smoking is not only bad for the skin and lungs, but it weakensthe skin by causing constriction of capillaries. It also damagesthe connective tissue and can increase the dimpling effect ofcellulite.

Tension and stress can cause a muscle to seize up in pain; theycan also cause the connective tissue that covers that muscle toseize up. Tension can also block the tissue, preventing properwaste elimination and purification.

Medication can disturb the body's natural processes, disturbingthe purification system that is naturally in place. Diet pills,sleeping pills and diuretics can all lead to cellulite; oralcontraceptives, which increase the body's oestrogen, cause fatcells to enlarge, leading to water retention. Retaining waterinhibits the body from flushing the system of toxins, leading tothe formation of cellulite.

Lack of exercise contributes to the formation of cellulite.Exercise decreases many health risks and also helps fightcellulite. It improves muscle tone, circulation and overallwell-being,

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