Another 5 tips on how models and dancers can maintain a toned, smooth skin and prevent cellulite, skin looseness and water retention:

1. Make sure that you get plenty of flavonoids and other phytonutrients in your diet. Flavonoids are essential for blood vessel health and collagen metabolism, helping keep your skin firm and your circulation and lymph drainage efficient. In addition they help ward off cancer and all other civilization diseases. These substances are contained in plentiful supply in berry fruits and vegetables, as well as decaf coffee, cocoa and green tea. Try to have as many vegetables (cooked or salads) and berry fruits as you can. Vegetables and berries contain very few calories compared to the amount of nutrients that they offer you, and can be consumed without thinking about calories. Berries and veg are the best examples of a foods that, no matter how much you eat of them, they simply cannot make you gain weight. Decaf coffee should not be consumed with sugar or artificial sweeteners which are harmful to your health, and should be drunk either unsweetened or sweetened with stevia, the only natural and good for you sweetener. The same applies to cocoa: you can make a hot chocolate with it, sweetened with stevia or unsweetened. Chocolate however is definitely not the health food that chocolate manufacturers try to convince you it is - even 70% or 80% chocolate. This is because the other 30% is made up of sugar, i.e. 6 teaspoonfuls of sugar per one 100-gram 70% chocolate bar! The only chocolate I recommend is 100% chocolate, and even that should be consumed in moderation as it contains high amounts of saturated fat and carbs. And finally, do take a good vitamin C and bioflavonoid oral supplement will help keep your veins in good shape avoiding thread or varicose veins.
2. Make sure that you get enough fish oil and evening primrose oil. Omega-3 long chain fatty acids (LCFA) such as EPA and DHA are essential for health, especially blood vessel health. In addition they help you stay slim as they encourage fat burning in your tissues. In the past I used to recommend oily fish, but taking into account the levels of pollution in our oceans today, I would not recommend fish more than three times a week. To get extra omega-3 LCFA you should supplement with a highly purified, ideally molecularly distilled, fish oil. Beware of cheap fish oils that may contain as many unwanted chemicals as fish does. A good amount to take is a total of 600mg or more of actual EPA and DHA (usually 1800mg of fish oil). In addition, increased fish oil consumption may lead to imbalances in the body, so I recommend a high strength evening primrose oil to supply you with the Omega-6 long chain fatty acids (GLA). The amount of actual GLA to consume should be 130mg (usually 1300mg of evening primrose oil). Beware of borage oil as a source of GLA as it also contains potentially harmful very long chain fatty acids (VLCFA).
3. If possible avoid all non-organic animal and fish food, which may contain endocrine disrupting pesticides. Endocrine disruptors (xeno-estrogens) mimic estrogen in the body with undesirable health concequences.
4. Avoid the vacuum suction-based, "palper-rouler" type of treatments that do provide mechanical stimulation but also overstretch your skin and cause spider veins, thereby giving with one hand whilst taking with the other.
5. Also, do not waste your money on laser treatments or electrical stimulation treatments (you know, the ones with the electrical pads placed on your bum and thighs), as both types of treatments are a sheer waste of time and money, offering you no benefits in terms of cellulite reduction or skin firming.

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