Having problems getting rid of your offending cellulite? If you are, do you know that there are natural ways to get rid of or at least reduce the appearances of cellulite? You can do that by eating the right type of cellulite busting foods and having a good exercise program.

In order to combat cellulite, we first need to know and understand what cellulite is. Cellulite is usually found in places where you store your stubborn body fat like in your thighs, your butt, upper arms and on your abdominal area.

In reality, cellulite is just a name for clumps of fats that are pushed against the connective tissues underneath your skin. When these connective tissues are unable hold in the underlying fat pushing upwards, then the cellulite is formed

There are many things that can cause cellulite development and some of them are your body fat to muscle percentage, hereditary, gender, age and your lifestyle. All of these will determine whether or not you have cellulite and how much of it you will eventually have.

Unfortunately for the girls, females are more prone to developing cellulite than men despite not all men can escape from scourges of cellulite. The reason for this is simply because the estrogen hormone in women tends to increase fluid buildup in their fat cells and also that women have thinner skin than men making it much easier for the fatty cells to be pushed upwards towards the surface for the clumps of fats to become visible.

One way good of eliminating ugly cellulite is to eat more veggies and fruits. Veggies and fruits contain high levels of antioxidants that can destroy the free radicals in the body. Free radicals are many a time responsible for the damages to your cells and body tissues.

Antioxidants also prevent future damage to your cells by providing a layer of protection to your cells and bodily tissues. To add icing to the cake, veggies and fruits also contain chock full of vitamin C which can help in building collagen in the skin making it stronger, more elastic and healthier.

Now remember to eat the fruit itself and not just the fruit juice for the full benefits the actual fruit can provide. On the other hand, do not over eat them as most fruits have high levels of sugar that may provide more calories than needed because if you eat more calories than what you use up, those calories will be stored as body fat.

The question you may want to ask is what is the relationship between free radicals and your cellulite? The short answer is that your lymphatic system is responsible for flushing out toxins from your body and the free radicals put a lot of pressure on this system preventing it from doing its job effectively.

When this happens, it creates fibers that bind to the walls of pockets of fats, making these pockets thicker and larger. This extra pressure on the system then pushes the fats upwards towards surface and thus become visible as cellulite.

Therefore if you want to prevent the free radicals from playing havoc to your cells, besides eating more veggies and fruits, you must avoid free radical causing agents like smoking, alcohol, stressful lifestyle, pollution, prolonged exposure to the sun and eating processed foods that are treated with preservatives and unhealthy chemicals.

The next step to combat cellulite is to adopt a good exercise regimen. When you exercise, you raise your heart rate and have better blood circulation to give you a healthier glowing skin. When your skin is healthier and stronger, it is more difficult for the fat clumps to be pushed to the surface to form visible cellulite.

On top of that, exercise do burn body fat and since your cellulite is part of your body fat, naturally you can burn away some cellulite away as well.

Chris Chew is a certfified professional Singapore personal trainer and have helped many women to get rid of cellulite happily.

Chris Chew is a certified personal trainer and has written many free articles on health and fitness at http://www.sgfitness.com/ and http://www.sgfitnessonline.com/

Author Bio: Chris Chew is a certfified professional Singapore personal trainer and have helped many women to get rid of cellulite happily.

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