6 Good For Your Skin Foods: What to Consume For a Beautiful Skin

July 2, 2010 – 4:43 pm

You can apply all the cosmetics and skin treatments you want but if you don’t consume the right healthy food that helps your skin you won’t get the desired results. Everyone wants to have a sexy looking skin that draws attention and put in a good light all your best features. Altering your eating habits is a must.

You can star by eating these 6 foods that help your skin stay healthy and young. As time passes just add more and more healthy aliments and eliminate the unhealthy ones. Without further ado here are 6 skin friendly foods:

1)Almonds: 24 almonds have 9 grams of mono-saturated fats that are as high-quality and healthy as omega 3 fats, 6 grams of proteins and almost half the daily required dose of vitamin E, 7% of your daily calcium dose and a considerable amount of zinc. All these nutrients help you keep your skin healthy and young.

2)Beets: if you have dry skin then you must eat more beets. Beets contain plenty of vitamin C and vitamin A which help you maintain your soft skin soft. You can make a delicious beet salad with virgin olive oil and garlic.

3)Mushrooms: from just 1 cup of mushrooms you will get 2/3 of the daily recommended dose of selenium. The lack of selenium form your body can lead to all types of skin cancers so consume more selenium filled mushrooms. Mushrooms also have lots of other nutrients that feed your skin and protects it. From mushrooms your body will also get lots of proteins, zinc and B vitamins.

4)Grape seed oil: are full of linoleic acid which is an crucial fat that helps your skin fix itself. From this oil you will also get an antioxidant that is fabulous at preventing skin damage due to the sun. If you suffer from recurrent skin inflammations you can use grape seed oil to alleviate them. Because grape seed oil maintains its beneficial properties even if it was exposed to high temperatures you can use it to cook your chow, even deep fry it.

5)Tomatoes: contain lots of antioxidants like beta carotene, vitamin C and lycopene. All these antioxidants reduce the damage done by the sun and prevent skin cancer. To help your body absorb more lycopene, which is a very powerful antioxidant, the specialists suggest that you consume tomatoes with virgin olive oil.

6)Lentil: as any other tissue from your body your skin needs proteins to stay healthy. Lentil is a fabulous source of proteins and it also contains plenty of fibers, iron, the vitamin B complex and minerals. A great way to cook lentil is by using it to prepare aliments that also contain virgin olive oil and parsley.

If you want to have a great looking skin all you have to do is consume more of the aliments mentioned above. You can also add more aliments to the list and in time you will create a skin friendly diet for yourself. I wish you good luck.   

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