How to fight the cellulite with sport and other solutions

There are always more women that turn to the scalpel for esthetic surgery operations, among these, beyond the famous surgery breast implants (breast augments or reduction) the most popular are those to reduce cellulite.

The cellulite is a very sensitive problem for many women, even the 40% of girls under 25 years admits to have this problem and it is precisely in these last few months that happened the boom of aesthetic interventions to reduce cellulite, especially slim women but that they also suffer from the orange peel skin. Cellulite is the main enemy for many women, especially because it is difficult to send it away. The boom of cosmetic interventions anti-cellulite, however, testifies that most women prefer this way rather than treat it with sport and physical activity.

Of course sport is much more tiring than going to the doctor, but the effect is much more durable and also has many positive benefits also for the whole body. To cure this annoying problem, especially now that summer is approaching, there are several workarounds. First of all, it is essential to do some physical activity in your free time. Certainly the duration activity (aerobic) is the best as it activates for a long time the cardiovascular and respiratory apparatus, facilitating the circulation in the involved muscle regions. It can be achieved using different means both at home, at the gym, or outdoors: race on land or on tapis roulant, stepper, bike or exercise bike, rowing machine, cross-country- skiing, swimming etc.. The means changes but not the methodology that should be applied. Obviously, the chosen means must priority mobilize the areas affected by cellulite.

There are then several steps to follow, avoiding smoking and alcohol, drink plenty of water low in sodium, contain the intake of flat, ingest a lot of fruits and vegetables, all this to make the skin more elastic. Also the massage, in a serious program to combat cellulite, has an important role, because it can improve the capillary microcirculation and the lymphatic drainage.

Even the use of electrostimulators can help to combat these annoying blemishes, these machines are now more modern, comfortable and functional, thanks to the use of ergonomics, which studies the integration of people and technology. This allows them creating more efficient and targeted electrostimulators to treat certain problems.

You can also take a bath (temperature 37° - 38° ) with a particular “recipe”: in the water you have to pour integral sea salt, rich in iodine. At the herbalist’s shop you have to buy 50 grams of horse chestnut bark, then prepare a decoction, filter it and pour it in the tub. The horse chestnut contains saponin and aescin elements that invigorate and protect capillaries. Stay in the bath 15 minutes. After this you should stay with the head over heels for another 15 minutes, to facilitate the circulation to the extremities. To drain the liquid and strengthen capillaries without lowering the pressure, there is an optimal infusion. You should prepare almost a liter to drink during the day. The ingredients are two spoon of birch, centella asiatica, dog-rose (all at the herbalist’s shop).

Then, in the market there is a wide range of creams which help to improve circulation and make skin more elastic. They should be applied after the bath with circular massaging for 5 minutes. Thus it stimulates the metabolism of fat cells making skin more toned.

By Martina Meneghetti with support from misuratore di pressione for any information, please visit depuratori acqua casa or for more info visit apparecchi magnetoterapia