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Celulite - is it an urban myth?
  • JamiSingsJamiSings
    When I was in high school our home ec teacher showed us this video on commericals and products to teach us not to waste our money on certain things. The entire thing was animated - if you can call it that. It was actually a series of drawings not unlike a comic strip, with each box being shown with a voice over. One section was on celulite creams. Box one showed a drawing of a black woman with an afro holding up a box of celulite cream. The voice over talked about such products then the next "scene" showed the woman turning the box over to find nothing inside while the voice over said that such things were a rip-off because "Celulite does not actually exist." He then said it was just a fancy name cosmetic companies give fat to steal our money with anti-celulite products.
    So the question is - does celulite really exist? 

     
    Obviously fat exists. However, celulite, from my understanding, is suppose to be a different type of fat, all dimply and stuff. So the real question is if there's different types of fat?
  • msgotrox
    Cellulite is not a certain type of fat but rather a certain appearance of fat. It's just the name given to that orange peel or cottage cheese look that occurs when areas of skin become dimpled due to the underlying tissue (usually regular old fat) expanding a bit past the reach of the skin's connective tissue. It works more or less like a tufted sofa.

    BTW, there are two kinds of fat - brown & white - but we have at most a few grams of brown fat, versus several pounds of white fat for even the skinniest person, so it's not really relevant.
  • lelalelalelalela
    the only thing that's different about cellulite fat rather as opposed to regular fat is that it's partially within the skin, which is why it looks like large round lumps. It's irregularly shaped and not smooth like regular fat because it's "peeking through" normal skin components like proteins and lipids. The only reason it appears on some places rather than all across is that the skin in those areas is thinner and less resilient.
  • Left BrainLeft Brain
    While cellulite does exist, the video was correct that anti-cellulite creams are a waste of money.
  • JamiSingsJamiSings
    Which basically means what I was taught in high school was both wrong and right. Pretty much like almost everything I was taught in school.
  • lelalelalelalela
    oh the day someone discovers a cellulite therapy that works and doesn't cost a fortune, I and all of womankind will be eternally grateful and that person will be a bajillionaire.
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