“TL;DR: A vegan diet isn’t inherently effective for reducing cellulite, despite its health and environmental benefits. While plant-based eating can support overall health, many vegan foods like sugar, hydrogenated fats, white bread, and fried items are unhealthy and can worsen cellulite. Ultra-processed vegan products, such as plant milks in nanoplastic-laden cartons or animal food imitations like “chik’n” or charred cauliflower “steaks,” are nutritionally poor and environmentally damaging. These “vegan junk foods” contribute to cellulite rather than reducing it. In contrast, a wholesome vegan diet rich in fresh vegetables, fruits, pulses, nuts, and minimally cooked foods can help prevent and reduce cellulite while promoting health. Adequate protein intake, such as through vegan protein shakes with collagen-supporting amino acids, is crucial for skin firmness. For a healthy body, prioritise fresh, fibre-rich foods with polyphenols, vitamins, and omega-3s, whether vegan or not, alongside regular physical activity.”
Is a plant-based diet good to get rid of cellulite?
“Vegan diet is healthy, so it must be good to help get rid of cellulite, right”?
Sugar and hydrogenated fats are vegan - but nobody would call them healthy
Junk vegan food causes cellulite, doesn’t reduce it
A real vegan / plant based diet is a great cellulite diet
Have a vegan protein shake too, for skin firmness’ sake
Fresh and healthy food means beautiful and healthy body
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“Vegan diet is healthy, so it must be good to help get rid of cellulite, right”?
This is a question I often hear at the clinic and my answer is: “Not necessarily”.
Indeed veganism - or at least vegetarianism - is good for the planet, and indeed both can potentially be good for your health and appearance, but not necessarily.
Sugar and hydrogenated fats are vegan - but nobody would call them healthy
Sugar for example is vegan, but it is the opposite of healthy.
The same applies to hydrogenated fats; and white bread and white rice; and french fries, made with vegan oil fried 20-times-over.
Those foods, despite being plant-based / vegan, are definitely NOT good for your health, skin, your circulation or, for that matter, cellulite.
Junk vegan food causes cellulite, doesn’t reduce it
Not to mention all the ghastly, ultra-processed plant milks, packed in cartons with polyethylene lining that leach nanoplastics into your body.
Paying for 99% water and 1% almonds in them is utter stupidity. Plus there is the carbon footprint of transporting basically water in a plastic container for hundreds or thousands of miles. And no, 99% of people do not bother to make their own almond “mylk” at home either.
Not good for the planet, not very nutritious and not good for health either. Unless you think an ultra-processed food with polyethylene nanoplastics floating in it is good for your health or your cellulite.
And of course there is the other category of ultra-processed factory foods, those animal food imitations.
If you are serious about being vegan, why do you need to think about animal products all the time, with stupid animal food imitation names such as chik’n, t’na, mylk etc? This is a mockery of true veganism.
And what’s with the chargrilled (basically burned) cauliflower “steaks” to imitate a charred beef steak? Like there is no goodness in a charred (basically burned) beef steak there is also no goodness in a burned vegetable covered with burned soy sauce - just pure cancer.
Just eat some nice aloo gobi or cauliflower salad with lemon and olive oil instead of trying to recreate an animal steak from a vegetable.
And the same applies to watermelon steak, an extremely unhealthy recipe, involving frying the natural sugars of the watermelon and leading to advanced glycation end products and zero protein. There is no goodness there, just nutritional junk.
The above are examples of what I call ‘vegan junk food’ and that kind of veganism is not good either for your health, your cellulite or the planet.
A real vegan / plant-based diet is a great cellulite diet
Personally, if I feel like having some vegan food, I cook or buy some time-honoured, delicious Indian, Greek, Italian, French, Lebanese, Thai, Mexican, you name it, TRADITIONAL plant-only dishes, instead of ultra-processed, chemical cr’p (excuse the pan), laden with salt, sugar and questionable oils and fats, made in a factory and packed in plastic - or worse, in a BPA-laden tin/can.
In fact up until a few decades ago the vast majority of the world’s population was eating wholesome vegan food 90% of the time, simply because they couldn’t afford animal food.
So there is a huge repertory of wonderful traditional vegan recipes from around the world to choose from, instead of consuming chickpea “t’na”, “mylk“ and burned cauliflower “steaks”.
So if veganism means consuming lots of vegetables, berries and other fruits, pulses, nuts, herbs and spices, all fresh and cooked minimally at low temperatures (instead of canned, ultra-processed, charred or fried), then, yes, a vegan diet is great for cellulite prevention and reduction, as well as for overall health.
Just make sure you avoid frying, charring and consuming trans fats, too little protein, too much fat (even healthy fat) or too much sugar.
Have a vegan protein shake too, for skin firmness’ sake
If you are a vegan or vegetarian make sure you have a vegan protein powder shake every day to make up for the vegan protein shortfall:
No, you can’t eat chickpeas every single day
Nuts have way too much fat to consume in high quantities
And no, the “you don’t need much protein” mantra is totally wrong - you do need protein to maintain firm skin
Better still, have a “vegan collagen” protein powder, i.e. a vegan protein powder with extra glycine, proline and hydroxyproline aminoacids, necessary to make skin collagen.
Fresh and healthy food means beautiful and healthy body
For a beautiful and healthy body you need physical activity and a diet rich in fresh foods packed with fibre, polyphenols, vitamins, protein and lots of omega-3 oils. It doesn’t matter if it is vegan or not.
But if it has to be vegan for ethical reasons, it better be fresh and real vegan, not ultra-processed and animal food imitation vegan.
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