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referred to as skin with an ‘orange peel’ effect, losing this cellulite is not
that easy as the fat cells under the skin are inside the body’s tissue and are
tough to eliminate. Although not life threatening, losing cellulite is the aim
of any woman (or man) that sufferers with it and of course it tends to get worse
with age. There are many causes of cellulite just as there are many ways of
losing cellulite, nevertheless if you are lucky enough to eliminate it, you can
have the just as hard task of keeping it off.

Commonly, cellulite is found on the thighs, stomach, and the butt and is much
more frequent in women than in males because of differences in the way fat,
muscle, and connective tissues are distributed in males and women’s skin. This
is because women generally have a higher amount of fatty tissue than men.

Estrogen, the female hormone is also partly to blame as one of the causes of
cellulite because it is an aid in the storage of fat required by the woman for
menstruation, when she is expecting a baby and producing breast milk. Another
contributing cause of cellulite is being overweight but cellulite is not formed
as a direct result of this, even so, it can exacerbate the situation. During
maternity, a woman’s body goes through a number of changes during which time
there is an growth in fatty deposits, general weight gain and the retention of
water.

Most doctors agree that the best way of losing cellulite is a reduced calorie,
balanced diet with food that has high fiber content, and to increase the amount
of exercise taken. One simple cellulite therapy is the use of a tanning bed
because the darker the skin the less evident the cellulite is. Unfortunately,
doing various cellulite therapy exercises may still not be enough in the pursuit
of losing cellulite or cure a person’s hormonal imbalance which is still usually
thought of as the main cause why females get cellulite. Still, there are other
cellulite therapies you can use such as kneading the affected specific regions,
water therapy to flush the system, ointments that burn the cellulite and of
course giving up cigarettes.

For those individuals who are serious about losing cellulite a technique called
suction lipectomy can be used where small incisions are made in the skin and the
cellulite is literally sucked up out of the muscles. The fatty deposits are
massaged with rollers which combined with the suction, helps to break them down
so that the trapped water and toxins are removed.

This is one of the more elaborate and costly methods of losing cellulite and not
a form of cellulite treatment every woman wants to undergo. Cellulite is neither
a medical disease nor a life threatening illness but does bring sadness to many
women and is commonly an indication of an unhealthy lifestyle. The cause of
cellulite is the first step but eliminating cellulite but does require a change
in the affected person’s lifestyle if they want to be free of it
altogether.