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Foods for Beautiful Skin

Healthy skin is an essential part of our health and natural beauty. One’s skin and hair is an important part of the body just as the liver, heart, and kidney. As you grow older the body is affected by wrong diet, pollution, stress. The skin loses its vitality, its youthful appearance. Its colour changes and the ageing process starts.

Therefore, a glowing skin is a reflection of inner health. Glow stands for: G: Green and yellow leafy vegetables; L: Lemon and fruits which is vitamin C needed for absorption of minerals to build up resistance against all diseases and for energy production; O: Oxygen — the ultimate life force. Get its maximum benefit via right breathing techniques through yoga, cardiovascular exercise; W: Water is the most important nutrient for good skin. For oxygen and blood to be circulated in the body, water is essential.

Causes of Unhealthy skin

Faulty diet: Refined foods like white flour, sugar and products made with them, tea, coffee, fried foods, chemicals and pesticides in foods, and soft drinks deplete energy, bring about wrinkles, unattractive skin and premature aging.

Lack of healthy blood: Healthy blood adds a glow to the skin and keeps it well-nourished, moist, and free from dryness and roughness.

Inadequate cleansing: Very often, our skin looks superficially clean; but it is really not. Dirt and dust particles can hide in the pores of the skin and clog sweat and sebaceous glands. Proper cleansing not only removes all the dust, dirt and make-up, which accumulate during the day, but also stops the oil-secreting sebaceous glands from getting clogged.

Diet: Proper nutrition is an art form. Every bite is a brush stroke that converts you into a beautiful painting. We are physically made of our teeth, skin, internal organs that are composed of vitamins, minerals drawn from the food we eat. Our physical beauty is directly related to the food we eat. Diet should supply all the nutrients needed to build health, namely, protein, carbohydrates, fats, essential fatty acids and all the essential vitamins and minerals. Such a diet will consist of liberal quantities of seeds, nuts and grains, vegetables and fruits, supplemented by special protective foods like milk, vegetable oils, yogurt,honey and yeast.

Treat your body with the respect it deserves. If you fill it with trash you’ll be left looking 15 years older. Your skin reflects your overall health. So try out these nine best foods for your skin and see the difference!

Water: Good hydration is your skin’s best friend. So ensure that you’re getting at least 8 glasses of water down your system.

Vitamin A: Mangoes are a great source! Yum! Lots of vitamin A is in store with this skin do-gooder! This fruit will repair your skin cells so it doesn’t look flaky. It has only 70 calories for each serving so it’s ideal for your weight loss programme. Further, leafy greens, carrots, prunes.

Low fat yogurt: Low fat dairy products are full of vitamin A. This essential vitamin does wonders for your skin. If you have a thyroid problem or diabetes that’s even more reason to stock up!

Vitamin C: Helps delay or slow free radical damage to cells and tissues thus creating lasting, youthful skin. Good sources are lemon, oranges, guavas, gooseberries, kiwis, papayas, potatoes.

Papaya: It has ‘papayan’ which is renowned for its skin cleansing properties present in the unripe fruit. Half ripe papayas, when eaten and applied to the skin remove dead skin layers, nourish and support the creation of healthy skin. The enzymes immediately set to work on tightening our skins, collagen tissue. These help protect against wrinkles and existing skin damage. Beware of unripe papayas for too long or it can burn the skin. Soak the fruit for a few minutes before applying. Eat it as a salad or slightly sautéed. Berries: Plums, strawberries, gooseberries have great antioxidant capacity which helps you to have wonderful and healthy skin.

Essential fatty acids:
Your skin needs essential fatty acids available in oily fish like the salmon. If fish isn’t your thing, then try walnuts, flax seed, or canola oil. Omega 3 and Omega 6 fatty acids are required to keep your skin healthy. Green tea: It has polyphenols which have anti-inflammatory characteristics. Vitamin E: Coconuts, avocadoes, almonds and olives. Vitamin E helps to moisturise your skin from within and erases fine lines on the face, repair connective tissue, heal the circulatory system and impart its soothing properties upon the digestive tract. It also protects your skin from damage and early aging. Eating mangoes can help your facial tissue stay healthy and in shape.

Coconut: When we drink coconut water, we give ourselves an instant blood transfusion especially if it is mixed with green leafy juice. Those who suffer from psoriasis or skin infection caused by fungal infection, coconut oil is very beneficial. Raw coconut can be grated and mixed into food.

Olive: It is highest in minerals, vitamin A and E and high in antioxidants. It keeps the skin smooth and stimulates the immune system.

Cottage cheese: Apart from calcium, cottage cheese is great for selenium. This antioxidant agent helps produce this essential mineral.

Aloe Vera: Legend has it that Cleopatra attributed her great beauty to eating and massaging fresh aloe vera pulp on her body. It helps in case of dry skin, is the best face lift, as it adds more firmness to the skin.

Zinc: Warts, acne improve considerable by consuming zinc rich foods. Pumpkin seeds, cashew nuts, coconut, sunflower seeds are the best sources of zinc.

Sulphur: It is a beautifier of the highest order as it cleans the skin and liver and has antiseptic properties and helps to build connective tissues. Onions contain a considerable amount of sulphuric oil which helps the skin glow. They help alleviate coughs, sore throat and colds.

Turmeric: It makes the skin soft, supple and smooth. Turmeric helps to counteract pimples, boils and other skin imbalances. It brings colour to the skin, adds juiciness to dry skin and affects the complexion more than any food. In the art of radiant beauty, these foods are a sure sign that foods do affect us.

Organic food: As far as possible go organic. Chemicals and pesticides in foods are the cause of millions of diseases.

These are sure shot tips to bright, young, healthy and glowing skin! It is very important to eat for beauty as real food cleanses, nourishes and beautifies your inner and outer self.

Written by James · Filed Under Skin Care 

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