“TL;DR: Over the past 25 years, a clear link has emerged between lifestyle choices and cellulite, regardless of whether one indulges in luxury dining or simpler fare. Consuming high-calorie foods and alcohol, whether from champagne and fine dining or beer and fish and chips, contributes equally to cellulite, loose skin, and body fat gain. Even expensive restaurants often use frying, sugar, fat, and questionable oils, undermining health despite their upscale appeal. For instance, sushi rice contains significant sugar, and prawn tempura is far from healthy steamed prawns. Desserts, posh or not, are laden with sugar, carbs, and fat. The Western diet and lifestyle, marked by metabolic inflammation, oxidative damage, poor circulation, and glycation, exacerbate cellulite, skin laxity, water retention, and ageing. Excessive decadence, even in luxury form, harms thighs and overall health, proving costly calories are no healthier than humble ones.”
How the ‘Champagne lifestyle’ causes cellulite
Champagne, ‘designer cocktails’, luxury restaurants and cellulite
How Western diet and lifestyle causes cellulite
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How London causes cellulite: champagne, designer cocktails and luxury restaurants
Cellulite and London: the champagne lifestyle
Champagne, ‘designer cocktails’, luxury restaurants and cellulite
Beer and fish and chips vs refined restaurants and expensive cocktails: what do these two things have in common? Calories and alcohol, of course.
In the last 25 years that we have specialised in cellulite, we have seen so many champagne-sipping people, who had literally thousands of evenings of refined dining at the most expensive restaurants, sophisticated cocktails and the absolute best champagne.
And we have met many others who just comfort-eat on the go and comfort-drink to relax and escape from London’s fast-paced living.
However, it doesn't matter if you gain your calories from the humble beer with fish and chips or from expensive champagne, fancy cocktails and fine dining. The end result is the same: cellulite, loose skin and body fat gain (as well as liver damage) do not discriminate between posh calories and humble calories.
Champagne and expensive food makes you pile on the pounds, as much as budget wine and simple food does, and if you have more of it, you will accumulate more fat and more cellulite. There is no such thing as diet champagne, slimming cocktail or “wagyu light”.
And food even in upmarket restaurants is cooked primarily with various degrees of frying (the worst type of cooking for your thighs), on PFAS and BPA laden cooking utensils and containers and is packed with sugar, fat, salt, butter, margarine and questionable oils. Yes, it tastes divine but it is a million miles away from healthy eating.
Did you know, for example, that each cup of sushi rice contains about a tablespoon of sugar, i.e. 15g or 60 calories worth of sugar?
Or did you think that prawn tempura at your favourite upmarket restaurant is the same as steamed prawns at home?
And these are just the good examples, from the generally lighter Japanese cuisine. Let’s not even talk about richer food from the fat-heavy French cuisine, the carb-heavy Italian cuisine, the fried-heavy Asian cuisine etc etc.
And, of course, desserts are always the same, posh or not: packed with sugar, carbs and fat. That’s the definition of a dessert.
Moral of the story: too much decadence, even luxury decadence, is not good for your thighs and overall health - and expensive doesn’t make it healthier.
How Western diet and lifestyle causes cellulite
The effect is the same: adhering to the typical Western diet, activity patterns, stress and lifestyle (which more and more people around the world do, even in developing nations), has a negative effect on overall health, and specifically on the skin.
Metabolic inflammation, oxidative damage, poor circulation, glycation are all hallmarks of this lifestyle and are directly responsible for cellulite, skin laxity, water retention and skin ageing.
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