(BlackDoctor.org) – Even if you wear a svelte size and work out regularly to stay lean, you may be struggling with one frustrating figure flaw that most women can relate to: cellulite.

When extra workouts don’t seem to make a difference in reducing the dimply, cottage cheese-like skin that affects thin and heavy women alike, cropping up on the butt and the backs of upper legs, new many resort to other tightening and firming techniques. But which of these new cellulite treatments are the most promising and which ones should you skip?

Cellulite: Understanding It

Before seeking treatment for cellulite, it helps to understand what it is and why it occurs, experts say. “It’s largely genetic,” says Carolyn Jacob, MD, a dermatologist and associate clinical instructor of dermatology at Northwestern Memorial Hospital, Chicago. “Ninety percent of women have it.”

Cellulite is fat, but with a different appearance than other fat. It looks like dimpled skin, sort of cottage-cheesy, and most often shows up on the thighs, hips, and buttocks. If it’s mild, it can only been seen when the skin is pinched. But in more severe cases, the bumpiness and peaks and valleys show when the skin isn’t pinched.

Cellulite is much more common in women than in men, experts say. Why? Fat in women often accumulates in the thighs, hips, and buttocks. Underneath the skin, the fat contains fibrous bands.

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In men, these bands are typically in even rows, says Robert Weiss, MD, president of the American Society of Dermatologic Surgery and a dermatologist in Hunt Valley, Md. But in women, even in women at a healthy weight, the bands aren’t in regular, even rows but are in more of a zigzag pattern, he says, probably due partly to hormonal influences. That allows the fat to push through the connective tissue that typically keeps it distributed evenly, resulting in the bumps, peaks, and valleys that appear as cellulite.

Genetics play a role in whether you will get noticeable cellulite, and so does the amount of fat in your body. Excess weight can make the cellulite more noticeable.

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Do you want to get rid of cellulite — also known as “cottage cheese thighs?” You’re not alone, no one is perfect, not even Beyonce.

Exercise is one of the best ways to get rid of cellulite. It burns away the access that they has contributed to your cellulite problem, and it also firms and tones the area helping your skin regain its elasticity.

Here are some natural ways to get rid of cellulite:

1. Have a steady but long walk puts your body in a continuous rhythmic motion. This benefits not just the leg and thigh areas when it comes to getting rid of those cellulite but also most parts of the body from heads down; neck, shoulders, arms, back and the abdomen. However, how quickly and for how long you should walk, together with your body motions greatly determines if you’ll be just sweating it out or targeting at those cellulite.

2. Next, jogging at a comfortable but controlled pace will also benefit the whole body including our stamina. This exercise is especially target at cutting down cellulite on the legs. Again, special posture and motion is required to achieve the maximum result.

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3. Swimming is probably one of the best exercises which tones most of our body muscles. Toning of muscles mean loosing of cellulite. It’s also an exercise that does not strain any particular part of the body. Which swim style to practice is also an important factor when it comes to getting rid of cellulite.

4. Last but not least, calisthenics is probably the most targeted form of exercise for address cellulite issues. This is to put the body into a sustained period of repetitive rhythmic body motions, performed over a period of time consistently and regularly. It is by far the ultimate form of exercise to get rid of cellulite.

(from ezinearticles.com)

Get cute right after your workout

Everyone seems to be freaking out about arm fat these days. I blame Oprah. But for that last bit of flap that you just can’t get rid of at the gym, some company has created Slim Tape, a clear tape that literally lifts and rearranges your fat so you can fool people into thinking you have slimmer arms. Well. Until you take your clothes off.

I haven’t seen this up close and personal, so maybe it’s a cooler product than it looks. Because I’m pretty sure taping your arms won’t convince anyone of anything. And you definitely can’t wear this stuff to the beach.

Have any of you tried it? Can you pass some insight along?