Therapy of Cellulite
 | A low-fat diet: Eating in a healthy manner is always | |
| a good idea and a low-fat diet is usually recommended as part of a weight maintenance lifestyle. However, the notion that you can shrink a localized fat lump or smooth out a dimple by eating less fat makes as little sense when it comes to cellulite as it does when it comes to flabby thighs or "love handles." | ||
| Dietary supplements: Several of these products | |
| have been marketed and contain a variety of ingredients such as ginkgo biloba, sweet clover, grape seed bioflavinoids, bladderwrack extract, oil of evening primrose, fish oil, and soy lecithin. These preparations claim to have positive effects on the body such as boosting metabolism, improving circulation, protecting against cell damage, and breaking down fats. | ||
| Massage treatments: In the past few years, several | |
| machines have been introduced that massage the areas affected by cellulite. These machines use rolling cylinders to gather areas of skin and massage them inside a chamber. |
Skin Care
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| Cellulite is the lumpy substance resembling cottage cheese that is commonly found on the thighs, stomach, and butt. Cellulite is actually a fancy name for collections of fat that push against the connective tissue beneath a person's skin, which causes the surface of the skin to dimple or pucker and look lumpy |
| Cellulite describes a condition that occurs in men and women where the skin of the lower limbs, abdomen, and pelvic region becomes dimpled after puberty. The term was first used in the 1920s and began appearing in English language publications in the late 1960s, the earliest reference in Vogue magazine, "Like a swift migrating fish the word cellulite has suddenly crossed the Atlantic. |
| Synonyms include: adiposis edematosa, dermopanniculosis deformans, status protrusus cutis, and gynoid lipodystrophy. Cellulite is unrelated to cellulitis, which is infection of the skin and its underlying connective tissue. |
Cellulite
| Treatments like liposuction (surgery to remove fat) and mesotherapy (injection of drugs into cellulite) are either expensive or may produce only temporary improvement |
| Two Types of Cellulite The first type of cellulite is from any ‘pinch’ or ‘compression’ of tissue in the thighs or buttocks. The second type of cellulite is the ‘mattress’ or ‘orange peel’ appearance that a woman may have in her natural stance or when lying down, which is referred to as cellulite. |
| Why is Cellulite More Prevalent in the Thighs and Buttocks? (Robergs and Roberts, 1997)is 20-25%, and a healthy range of body fat for men is 10-15% of an enzyme know as lipoprotein lipase (LPL). LPL is located on the blood vessel walls throughout the body. It functions like a ‘regulatory’ of an enzyme know as lipoprotein lipase (LPL). LPL is located on the blood vessel walls throughout the body. It functions like a ‘regulatory’ enzyme, which controls the distribution of fat in various depots in the body (Pollock & Wilmore, 1990). It has been shown that women have a higher LPL concentration and activity in the hip and thigh region (Pollock & Wilmore, 1990). higher LPL concentration and activity in the hip and thigh region (Pollock & Wilmore, 1990). (Pollock & Wilmore, 1990). . Why Does Cellulite Affect Some People More than Others? There is much variation in anatomy and skin anatomy from person to person. Women have unequal amounts of subcutaneous fat, as well as variable thickness and denseness of the dermis and epidermis skin layers. |