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The biggest female epidemic: cellulite

Wednesday, January 21st, 2009

Cellulite is probably one of the most embarrassing of all physical faults that women have.

Cellulite isn’t just a problem with the obese or overweights either. Normal sized and even skinny women suffer from cellulite as well!

It has been surveyed that 90% of ALL women have cellulite somewhere on their bodies. That leaves only a small 10% who are actually free from this problem.

Now before you start hating those women’s guts for being so lucky, you should ask yourself what you can do to get rid of your cellulite so that you will be a part of that 10%.

Eventually as enough women begin to solve this cellulite problem and rid them of cellulite, the 10% who are free from cellulite will grow to 15% and the 90% who suffer from cellulite will decrease to 85%, and on and on.

You little knew that ridding yourself of cellulite and helping your friends and family to do the same could have such a momentous effect, did you?

Everyone thinks dimples are adorable, but that only when they’re on your face. They don’t look quite so cute when they’re on your thighs, hips or any of the many other places of which we women are cellulite prone.

“What help is there for my cellulite?” You might ask.

That’s a good question since there are so many different claims about products and treatments that will supposedly “Diminish Cellulite in 10 Days!” or whatever claim they put out.

What woman wouldn’t want to try these just to see if they would work for her?

But sadly in most cases you’ll be throwing your time and money away on these false or misleading claims that will not help cellulite but will only drain your bank account.

There are a lot of real things you can do to help rid yourself of cellulite. Proactive things that don’t involve liposuction, or having your thighs vacuumed over.

- Exercises which target certain areas with cellulite help a great deal.

- Eating a properly balanced diet is tremendously successful in clearing the toxins and fatty tissue from your body that result in cellulite.

- Even massages and saunas have been proven to help since they aid in the elimination process, which clears fatty build up, and in turn clears cellulite.

- Drinking more water also helps with elimination and cleansing your system from cellulite. So be sure to get your 6-8 glasses each and every day.

It’s also an interesting fact to know that men don’t get cellulite. Even when they get obese or fat.

Their fat deposits are structured differently than ours so the skin doesn’t dimple when they get bigger, causing cellulite, as it does with women.

This of course is a relief to women everywhere because no woman wants a man who has the same physical defect she herself suffers from and hates so passionately.

Dieting – Lose Weight Healthy

Wednesday, December 31st, 2008

Many of us are constantly in a battle to lose weight, and a lot of us want to discover a diet where we can lose weight and lose weight fast. Not looking at how to lose weight healthy.

Dieting is a very hard thing to do. First you must commit yourself to modify the diet or current way you eat, which if not an easy task. Statistics on dieting are not good, so how can we find

a diet that is easy and will lose weight and lose weight healthy.

There are many good diet plans out on the market today. The South Beach Diet is a very popular healthy diet plan, there is the Negative Calorie Diet, which in my opinion is also a healthy way of eating. There is also the Idiot Proof Diet Plan which is exactly that, and is a healthy plan.

One crucial aspect of dieting is to burn fat but also feed muscle as you don’t want to lose weight and have a lot of flabby skin.

1. Do not ever skip breakfast, your breakfast gets your metabolism going, especially after a good nights sleep. Eat a healthy diet, like whole grain cereals, protein based foods that are low in fat, lowfat yogurt, etc.
2. Drink plenty of water, for one drinking a lot of water keeps you feeling full and less hungry, drink less soda and coffee and definitely less alcohol as all of those can add significant calories to your daily intake.

3. Make sure you watch your carbohydrate and calorie intake. Make sure you keep track of your intake. Carbohydrates need to be kept low, as well as eating good carbs such as fruits and vegetables, stay away from your refined sugars, flours and processed foods.
4. Take your time, don’t try to rush losing weight, lose weight healthy means lose weight slow, plus if you do it the right way, you will keep the weight off. Many people who lose weight to rapidly, as soon as they shift their eating habits back they put the weight back on quickly and usually a lot more weight than they originally lost. What happens when you lose weight to rapidly your metabolism will slow down, it slows down the rate we burn energy to survive. A resistance is built up which is called homeostasis, for example when our body heats up, we sweat, which is the response designed to cool down, this is homeostasis. The same principle happens when you lose weight, but when you lose weight to rapidly you will lose body fluid and muscle mass instead of burning the fat.

You should also take a regimin of vitamins and minerals. This will boost your energy and your metabolism.

To lose weight healthy, you must eat good foods, not just basing them on the caloric or carbohydrate content, and you must do some sort of exercise.