Food & Health: Foods That Give You Fresh, Younger-Looking Skin

Many people don’t know that it is much more easier and convenient to use Foods to make your skin fresh and glow than using creams. Many people resort to using creams to make their skin look fresh and younger forgetting or not knowing that these creams contain ingredients that are carcinogenic. You don’t have to expose your skin to these kind of dangers; eat well and see your skin look fresh and younger.

5 Foods For A Fresh & Younger-Looking Skin

Skin beauty largely depends on the overall health of your body. Adding the right foods into your diet helps you fights wrinkles and get you glowing to keep you attractive and vibrant. This post will share with you, some of the foods that can help you achieve the kind of beautiful skin that you desire. Some of these foods help us by protecting skin from the damaging and ageing effects of the sun.

1. Eat nuts for fresh skin

Nuts will help remove signs of ageing and gives you some youthful appearance. Nuts in general are high in vitamin B complex help with not only skin cell restoration. They also help improve hair growth and dry skins.  Nuts such as Brazil nuts are also rich in antioxidants like vitamin E. This Vitamin E is skin-friendly and have been shown to improve skin’s circulation, this in turn helps a healthy skin glow.

It is a common knowledge that some nuts can be rich in fats. However, these fats are usually polyunsaturated and monounsaturated fats, which promote a healthy circulatory system. All nuts have different nutritional profile and will offer various health benefits, one of which is to help get a fresh and glowing skin.

2. Yoghurt from animal milk

In the articles where I talked about foods that addressed checking of potential dangers written on food packages before eating them, I mentioned that yoghurt is a good form of milk for those who have lactose intolerance. This is because they can still take advantage of the health benefits of Milk, while still avoiding lactose. In Yoghurt, the lactose has been converted to lactic acid. Yoghurt, especially a low-fat one, is a great food source for vitamin A. Vitamin A, as we know is a vital nutrient for maintaining vibrant skin. Vitamin A helps the body produce collagen, an important protein that is partly responsible for the firmness of the skin. It also helps prevent the deterioration or loss of collagen.

Some skin experts have also said that yogurt can be applied to the face two or three times a week for a soft and supple skin. There are claims that it helps with sunburn relief, fighting of acne, reduce discolouration and fight ageing.

3. Turmeric

Commercially prepared mustards  get their yellow colour from turmeric. Turmeric is also the source of some surprisingly potent chemicals collectively known as curcumin. Exciting ongoing research published in Clinical Cancer Research shows that curcumin might work to thwart the progression of an increasingly common skin cancer, squamous cell carcinoma. Curcumin also reduces inflammation and works as an antioxidant to reduce skin damage.

If you don’t know what turmeric is, Turmeric is a rhizomatous herbaceous perennial plant of the ginger family, Zingiberaceae. It is native in southwest India and looks very much like ginger but with yellow flesh.

Turmeric is also used outside the body as it is an excellent exfoliating agent and can help you defeat the signs of ageing. It helps removes wrinkles, acne and helps lighten out stretch marks.

4. Oily Fish rich in omega-3s

Oily fish that are rich in Omega-3 fats hugely encourage the body to produce anti-inflammatory compounds. These anti-inflammatory compounds can help protect our skin against inflammatory skin conditions such as eczema and psorasis, leaving our skin smooth, fresh and young-looking.

One may want to argue that oily fish would contain fat and what we want to do is avoid consumption of fat. If you have read this article in which it was explained that you may actually need fat to burn fat, you would change that notion. The fatty acids contained in fish oils are also very essential – our body cannot produce them, so we have to take them in through diets such as this from oily fish.

Foods rich in omega-3 fatty acids help reduce the body’s production of inflammatory compounds — natural chemicals involved in the ageing process, that affect how healthy the skin looks and feels.

5. Whole Grains

Whole grains are rich in Zinc, which is involved in the normal functioning of the sebaceous glands in the skin. The sabaceous glands produce oil and helps to repair skin damage, keep skin soft and supple. Whole grains are sources of skin-friendly B vitamins like folate, niacin, and micronutrients like zinc and magnesium. Zinc is also very important for skin’s immune defenses.