Mitchel Goldman, MD, an associate clinical professor at University of California at San Diego regularly informs dermatological community about cellulite treatments. On one such occasion in 2002, at American Academy of Dermatology's summer scientific meeting in New York, Dr. Goldman offered bleak hope for women with fat dimples while asserting that there is no “cure” for cellulite.

Perhaps Dr. Goldman has never visited a women’s figure competition, Gold’s Gym or any placed packed with women who know how to take care of their bodies. If he did frequent such places, Dr. Goldman would find that there is indeed a three-step remedy for cellulite which follows:

1.Eat a macronutrient rich diet that maintains your ideal body weight; 2.Exercise at least 60 minutes daily to promote circulation and increase skin’s elasticity and tone; and 3.Do resistance training to increase muscle size, boost fat metabolism, and increase structural support for skin’s fat layer.

I assure you that women who pose as models for cellulite creams and services already do these things.

Notwithstanding, Dr. Goldman rests convinced that "Foods really do not have an impact on whether a woman has cellulite or not." He further doubts dietary interventions by stating, “Even a woman who radically changes her diet from high fat foods to low fat foods would still have cellulite. Consumers should be wary of any diet plan that claims to reduce appearance of cellulite -- it is simply not credible."

So how do women in advertisements for cellulite creams get rid of their cellulite? Not by using a cream, of course. One may answer that Adobe Photoshop editing cleverly erases smiling fat dimples. That’s not always case. Women can and do shrink their cellulite bubbles using a sensible diet and exercise program.

1.Eating to eliminate cellulite Enjoy five to six meals/snacks a day. Frequent eating keeps blood sugar level balanced so that your body does not resort to fat storage. This predictable food intake also keeps metabolism burning calories at a consistent rate.

2. Strategic exercising for cellulite elimination A study issued by National Academies' Institute of Medicine in 2002 recommends an hour of cumulative exercise each day to maintain a healthy weight. Cellulite is an aesthetic issue and not a grave health threat. So while climbing stairs here, and washing car there, may help your heart, it does nothing for cellulite.

As we grew up, we found wonders elsewhere: coffee shops and diners where adolescents gathered and food was only a platform for real business of talking, bonding, and flirting. We drank cola and root beer and discovered sundaes, pizza and french fries. But real food was what we ate at home.

Later, we moved on to pale imitation of food represented by college cafeterias and underground cafes that were heavy on music and political rebellion and light on menu. We returned home for holidays and again ate real food, as good as we remembered. Some of us moved on to non-food of C rations and swore we'd never enjoy eating again.

We moved into world of work: automats and deli lunches or expense-account steak and martinis where even most exquisite fare took a back seat to table discussions. We married, moved into new homes, rediscovered warmth and intimacy of a family kitchen and embraced delights of gourmet cooking, homemade bread, and nouvelle cuisine.

At same time, just below our level of awareness, fast food industry started to blossom into billion dollar gorilla it is today.

At first, it was small hamburgers and hot dogs with french fries and a drink. At first, it was an occasional visit to "get mom out of kitchen." At first, it was just something fast that avoided interruptions in our race to top.

The menus expanded to encourage more frequent visits. Drive-Thrus that sat closed and empty until noon suddenly discovered how to make breakfast items that could be eaten at wheel. Chicken, fish, and ribs were added, soon followed by Mexican specialties, baked potatoes, fried vegetables, and sandwiches. The burgers got bigger and so did we.

Somewhere, a brilliant light bulb exploded in an ad man's brain and "Super-Size" was born. If a burger was good, why not make it bigger for just a little more money? If fries are staff of life for American teenagers, why not make portions bigger? Why not make best purchase value a whole meal, combining everything customer wants (and maybe something they don't)? Why not Super-Size whole meal and really make money?

Rather than an occasional change-of-pace, Drive-Thru gradually assumed a predominant place in our diets. Astute marketers targeted their sales pitches to most responsive and easily manipulated niche of population: children. Tired, time-strapped parents yielded to tearful pleas to visit Ronald or Jack. And our children grew fat.

Teenagers, with their deep-seated psychological preference to live in their cars existed on a diet made up, almost exclusively, of fast food, turning up their noses at thought of a home-cooked meal. Active and full of energy, they ignored almost imperceptible puffiness that their intake triggered.

What was there to worry about? The Drive-Thrus were a gift from heaven: tasty food, fast access, car-proof containers, cheap satiation.

Then we woke up. We looked at a world where even average individual was clearly overweight and more than a third of us were obese, even our children. In a culture obsessed with appearance of being thin, we were become permanently, indisputably, fat.