Cellulite is a condition that according to numerous sources affects 90%-95% of women. It does not matter if you are obese, overweight, normal weight, or underweight, cellulite is not a condition dependant on how much you weigh.
Cellulite is the cottage cheese like lumpy substance in the skin that is commonly found in legs, thighs, stomach and butt. The word cellulite was derived from the French word for “cell” combined with the suffix “-ite” which means disease.
In common terms, cellulite is caused mainly because of a “drainage problem” and strangled fat. Once the cellulite is present it will continue to accumulate which makes it difficult to eliminate. Such damage is not visible to the naked eye until it becomes a lump in the skin.
The cellulite is rather a cosmetic defect, than the disease. However, in really advanced cases it may raise heaviness and pain feelings in the body. Basically, the main problem of women suffering from cellulite is cosmetic.
The lumpy, bumpy, “orange peel,” or “cottage cheese” appearance of cellulite is caused by “strangled fat.” Here is how. Picture if you can that underneath your skin is a mesh work of collagen fibers (septae) that resemble “fish net stockings.”
Pregnancy can cause cellulite. In preparing your body to give birth, it secretes hormones that “loosens” things up to allow parts of you to stretch more than you would believe possible. This means that a lot of connective and supportive soft tissue is becoming weak or “lax” and not holding things (including fat) in place..
BUT, and here is where the drainage problem comes in, when water and/or fat enters the fat cells, they bulge, if your cellulite metabolism is working right, your body makes the corrections necessary and drains the area.
The lymphatic system of the body is the waste removal system. When the lymph system gets bogged down carrying more “garbage” than it can handle, cellulite can develop. What bogs down the lymph system? Lot’s of things, mostly things you can control like the toxins from cigarettes, alcohol, heavily processed foods, excess fats, refined sugars, and free radicals from oxidative stress.
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