How our takeaway culture causes cellulite

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• How London causes cellulite: food delivery apps and takeaway food

• Cellulite x London

• How Western diet and lifestyle causes cellulite

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How London causes cellulite: food delivery apps and takeaway food

“Don’t cook, just eat”, goes the motto of food delivery app Just Eat. Deliveroo and Uber Eats preach a similar philosophy: why bother to cook, when you can outsource your food?

Hey, you don’t even need to wash any dishes - you just send the plastic containers, knives and “sporks'“ to the landfill and to the ocean and job done.

Obviously things are not so simple. Takeaway food is not cooked in a ‘Green Pan’ on a Smeg stove in a granite kitchen with a £50-a-kilo extra virgin Toscano olive oil, coming out of a cute glass bottle.

We are talking about £1-a-kilo, 100-times refried cooking oil with which food is cooked, in quite often questionable hygiene kitchens.

Not to mention the salt, the sugar, the processed cheese etc etc, which eventually have a profound effect on both your blood vessels, your skin, butt and waistline.

Plus, let’s not forget that 90% of restaurant and takeaway food is made on a pan, which means frying of different designations: sauté frying, wok frying, deep frying, shallow frying etc. This is in addition to charring, smoking and other types of unhealthy high temperature cooking.

The facts are that fried food, hydrogenated and other questionable oils, sugar and high temperature cooking are known to cause heart disease, cancer and, yes, cellulite.

And all those apply not just to cheap but also posh takeaways, which are marginally better.

So, although the odd takeaway is not a big deal, having takeaways several days a month, as is fashionable these days, is not a good idea - for those at least who care about their health and appearance.

Cellulite x London

This article is part of a series which examine the effects living in London has on health and appearance, with emphasis on the focus of this blog: skin firmness, anti-ageing and cellulite.

Of course, ‘London’ could readily be replaced by ‘New York’, ‘Rome’, ‘Paris’, or even sunnier places like ‘Mumbai’, ‘Los Angeles’ and ‘Sydney’.

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.

Check out all our “How Western diet and lifestyle causes cellulite” articles here.

And check our 100+ tips on How to get rid of cellulite and tighten up your skin here.

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