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Saturday, March 10, 2007

Spa Rx: Cellulite Plight
Lots of Spa Hype, Little Scientific Knowledge, and No Magic Bullet

I happen to like cottage cheese. makes a nice breakfast, spread on a whole wheat bagel, or with fruit for a light lunch. I just don't want it on my thighs.

Like almost every other woman not currently a Ford model, I've become familiar with cellulite--a word that didn't enter the common parlance in this country until about 30 years ago, coined, reputedly, by the owner of a New York skin-care spa. But the dimpled, puckered, waffled, cottage-cheesy skin that sets off an alarm at the approach of bathing-suit season is certainly not new: Just look at Renoir's Grandes Baigneuses or Manet's models having their dejeuner sur l'herbe. You'd think that something so venerable, so visible, and so vanity wounding would be understood by now.

Although cellulite is sometimes referred to by the mouth-filling and scientific-sounding name dermatomyoliposclerosis (der-ma-to-my-o-lip-o-scler-o-sis), the term does not exist in recognized medical references.

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