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If it works for you, do it

If it works for you, do it. That’s my message.

I believe, good exercise and good diet should be the heart of your cellulite-reduction program. Add to this a sporting interest. Take herbal cellulite-reduction tablets too, if you are so inclined. And it doesn’t end there. New technology and the New Age have a whole new menu of other’ ways to keep you in good condition and in a good frame of mind.

From liposculpture to electrotherapy, new technology and

medical science will cosmetically work on the problem, in some instances with a success rate approaching 98% to 100%.

As for the New Age, it has been characterised by a willingness to borrow from any culture without prejudice. And so it does. However, one of the unifying themes of the New Age is healthy living and self- improvement. Check out your local New Age Centre’s activities. If you cannot be persuaded to play a sport, you might be better suited to a non-competitive physical activity like yoga or T’ai Chi.

While spending time at the Centre, take a look at the books. There will be a range of subjects which are not easily purchased at general bookshops. Subjects like visualisation, affirmations and self-improvement with a spiritual bent.

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Turning Japanese?

If you get to choose the restaurant go Japanese. The all-round menu is better suited to your kind of diet than most Indian, Chinese and Italian.

Thai food is another sound choice. It is loaded with rice and fresh vegetables. Middle Eastern is also fine, especially if you fill up on tabouli, salsa, yoghurt dip and homus.

More restaurants are catering to the demand for fresh, delicious salads and fresh fruit mixes.

No one bats an eyelid when you ask for skim milk instead of normal milk. Many will not put a dressing on your salad unless you wish for one.

Be selective when you order from any restaurant – it doesn’t have to be a No 9 on the menu!

Even if we create the near perfect capsule, it will never, ever, beat cellulite as convincingly as real food.

The Salad Bar

We’re seeing a lot more salad dishes on the menu and with a ‘healthy’ motive, people are ordering them for lunch. However, the mayonnaise is actually a saturated fat, and this is what makes these salads unsuitable for cellulite shedders!

Prefer soya products, such as soya mayonnaise.

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The beauty of going to a fitness centre is that there is every piece of equipment and cardio-machinery that you can imagine on the premises and a friendly environment to help your motivation.

Sometimes going to a fitness centre is exactly the right answer. To have a physical instructor on hand to monitor your heart rate and tell you if you’re overdoing it or not working hard enough is worthwhile.

Conversely, you could fill up the bedroom or rumpus room with gym equipment and outlay thousands of dollars doing so. For example, a home-use treadmill may cost $2500, but the treadmill at your local gym is of commercial strength and worth possibly $14,000. So a fitness centre provides a wide range of substantial equipment and a financial outlay which is only the cost of the subscription.

When working on a movie, Madonna installed an entire mini-gym in one of her apartments. To her, it was as important as having a bed or a loo.

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The way to turn a leisurely walk into a fat-burner is to go for a longer duration.

If you don’t like exercise which requires bursts of energy, duration is the only other way to turn walking into working.

Walk for more than half an hour – because you begin to burn fat for fuel after 35 minutes of non-stop movement providing you keep your exercise effort in the zone around 6.0-7.5

EARLY IS BEST

Prefer to do exercise early in the day because doing so will kick-start your metabolism first thing in the morning.

The earlier you get your metabolism and your circulation going, the more hours your system has to work on the problem and you will burn up quicker whatever you put in your body.

SKIP THE MIDNIGHT SNACK

The midnight snack is never essential. Nachos, corn chips, chocolate and ‘Elvis food’ are what many people eat at that hour. So skip the midnight snack. If you get the urge, just munch on a piece of fruit which is easy to digest.

Remember: what you run on in the morning is what you’ve eaten the night before.

Breakfast is important, but it’s not what fuels your body until later in the day. What you are operating on in the morning is what you had for dinner the night before. So make sure you eat something that is easy to digest and give your body time to digest it.

You will sleep uneasily if your body is trying to figure out what to do with those cheese melts!

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A French physician called Balfour first documented the occurrence of pitted skin in 1816.

In 1929 another French physician, P Lageze, discovered that cellulite comes in stages – first tissues in the thighs, buttocks, knees, abdomen, and upper arms, then fibrous formations develop which eventually create the dippled effect.

Then in 1966 two Spanish dermatologists confirmed that watery fluid does indeed accumulate in the tissue. It was agreed that this was a specific type of fat.

But it was not until the 1970s that the whole of the medical world began to stand up and take notice, when Professor Sergio Curri, an Italian pathologist compared cellulite cells to other fat cells and discovered that they differed biochemically. And the difference was that the connective tissue between them was weaker than in normal fat cells. This meant they allowed plasma to leak into the spaces between the fat cells, causing the tissues to stretch with poor circulation.

Once this happens, the layers of fat start to bulge and the skin gets the ‘orange peel’ look.

Today’s cellulite reduction products and programs are mostly predicated on Curri’s findings.

Cellulite is not organ, it’s not bone and it’s not muscle tissue. It’s a difficult type of fat.

But it was not until the 1970s that the whole of the medical world began to stand up and take notice, when Professor Sergio Curri, an Italian pathologist compared cellulite cells to other fat cells fat discovered that they differed biochemically. And the difference was that the connective tissue between them was weaker than in normal fat cells. This meant they allowed plasma to leak into the spaces between the fat cells, causing the tissues to stretch with poor circulation.

Once this happens, the layers of fat start to bulge and the skin gets the ‘orange peel’ look.

Today’s cellulite reduction products and programs are mostly predicated on Curri’s findings.

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