Eat Your Way to Better Skin

What you eat is what you see outside of your body! Here is what you need!

Water

Water keeps the cell skin plump and it is needed regularly to help your skin grow healthy. Aim for at least 8 glasses a day but do not drink them all at once. One cup per hour will do fine. Remember if you drink coffee or tea, you need drink additional 3 glasses to replace the water you loss. If you are weighty with water retention, drink more water so your body can flush the water instead of storing it.

Zinc

Very important for healing skin and able to reduce acne. (pimples) Foods such as nuts, seeds (kuaci) and shellfish contains lots of zinc.

Vitamin A

A very powerful antioxidant, helps your skin produces keratin. (strengthens skin cells) and protein that helps your cell regeneration. If less of this, your skin will be dry and flakier than normal. Scratch gently on your skin and see if there are lots of white marks, if there is, means you are lacking Vitamin A. Carrots, peaches, pumpkins and sweet potatoes are high in Vitamin A.

Vitamin C

Collagen is one of the most important substance in the structure of the skin, it helps keep it firm and well toned. To feed collagen, you need Vitamin C. Eat kiwi fruit(4 a day is enough), oranges, jambu, blueberries.

Iron

Low level of iron leads to reduced oxygen and this can be the cause of pale skin and dark circle on your eyes. Eat more red meat and dark green leafy vegetables.

Essential fatty acids

Dry skin often occurs when women start low fat diets and lack of essential fatty acids is one of the reasons. EFA often found in oily fish, nuts and kuaci.

What You Don’t Need

Salty foods

Can cause pimples. Makes the skin dehydrate

Caffeine

Every cup of coffee needs 3 glasses of water to flush it down. Increases level of stress hormones.

Hydrogenated Fats

Found in nearly all processed food and margarine.