the richest foods in soluble fibre by far are ground or cracked chia seeds, flaxseeds and oats. During the last 25 years I have seen a lot of clients at our cellulite clinic who suffered from constipation and I have never seen anyone fail to stop constipation and be able to go to the toilet within 24 hours when they consumed two heaped tablespoons of chia seeds or ground flax seeds with two large glasses of water once or twice a day. Read more…
Hydrogenated oils, trans fatty acids, cellulite, skin ageing and skin looseness
Cellulite and glycaemic index (GI): the effect of sucrose, glucose, fructose, insulin resistance and glycation
Glycemic index (GI) refers to the speed with which a certain food raises blood glucose levels. The glycaemic index is a scale from 0-100, with pure glucose set to be 100. A food is considered to have a low GI if it is 55 or less; high GI if 70 or more; and mid-range GI if it is 56 to 69. Some foods and drinks actually have a GI much higher than glucose. For example the GI of beer is up to 119 and that of corn flakes is up to 132…
Inflammaging (chronic, low grade inflammation) and cellulite
Inflammaging (ageing due to inflammation / inflammation due to ageing) is defined as an age-related increase in the levels of pro-inflammatory markers in blood and tissues. Inflammaging is a fancy recent name for an older term, "chronic, low grade inflammation", which has been used for more than two decades and it refers to both whole body ageing and skin ageing. Mild chronic inflammation is generally considered to be a biomarker of accelerated biological ageing, which can result in both health and aesthetic conditions, including skin ageing and cellulite…
Do seed oils cause cellulite?
Seeds mainly contain omega-6 fatty acids (mainly linoleic acid), of which the Western diet already contains too much, tipping the omega-3 : omega-6 fatty acid balance from an ideal 1:4 to an excessive 1:20. Excess omega-6 fatty acid consumption is known to contribute towards low grade inflammation, which is a contributing factor to cellulite Furthermore, like all oils and fats, seed oils (sunflower oil, corn oil, soy bean oil, horrid cottonseed oil etc) carry…





