Originally published August 17 2005
How to rid yourself of cellulite
by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, NaturalNews Editor
Cellulite affects women of all sizes, but exercise can be the trick to getting rid of it.
You could call it dimples, ripples, orange peel, lumps, bumps or cottage cheese and it still wouldn't make your average woman any happier about it.
Cellulite, the experts tell us, is just fat.
I am not a fat person, nor are any of the women in my family, and this lumpy, bumpy condition tends to sneak up behind us anyway.
It became very apparent to me that cellulite was something beyond fat when I injured my knee last year.
As the muscles in my right leg atrophied (which means they shrunk up like a wet wool sweater), my skin became more and more dimpled and rippled.
A man carrying 20 pounds of Budweiser under his belt doesn't have cellulite because his skin has a high number of elastin and collagen fibers under the skin.
Because this network of fibers is more dense on men, and some lucky gals too, the rumpled fat below the skin doesn't show up as cellulite.
However, the majority of women don't have this thick network of connective tissue, and even a healthy level of fat pushes through the gaps and shows.
I know, I had a very skinny, but dimpled leg.
I am going to speak purely from experience and not from scientific study.
I think that, when it comes to cellulite anyway, scientists (who must be mostly men and high collagen-count women) take glee in saying it is nothing but fat and therefore your only recourse is to lose the fat.
When I am flush with H2O, things smooth out a bit.
If you are one of the 95 percent of women that say they have some cellulite, go ahead and curse your genes.
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