| Want truly fabulous skin -- glowing, vibrant, and, | | | | especially good. Using water softeners to |
| yes, younger-looking skin? Make sure you're | | | | de-mineralize drinking water may reduce some of |
| putting foods for healthy skin on your plate. No | | | | the potentially helpful effects. In addition to |
| matter how many beauty supply and skin care | | | | keeping cells hydrated, water helps cells move |
| product you buy, if you don't eat a healthy diet, | | | | nutrients in and toxins out, which Lipski says |
| you won't look as good as you could with healthy | | | | automatically leaves skin looking better. Just as |
| skin. As junk food goes in your body, your body | | | | fatty animal foods can destroy your skin health, |
| forms itself from the junk food. Do you want | | | | polyunsaturated and mono unsaturated fats found |
| your skin health to reflect junk food? If you will | | | | in such foods as walnuts and avocados are |
| eat a healthy diet, including such foods as whole | | | | essential for great skin health. If you have had an |
| grains, fruits, vegetables, and nuts, your skin will | | | | inconsistent diet or been on antibiotics, you could |
| maintain its youthful look when others your age | | | | also receive a skin health benefit with an injection |
| are starting to show their age. Studies are finally | | | | of bacteria from yogurt. There are so many |
| catching up to what dermatologists and | | | | foods that can be classified as skin care foods; |
| vegetarians have been telling us for years. That | | | | there are fiber rich foods which help you with |
| is, the more years you spend eating healthy | | | | digestion and removal of toxins from the body. It |
| foods, the slower you and your skin will age. The | | | | has been scientifically proven; people who eat |
| more years you spend eating junk foods and | | | | fiber rich food are healthier than those who eat |
| drinking alcoholic beverages, the more accelerated | | | | junk food. You can start by combining a plate of |
| your aging process will be. Even before the days | | | | salads in your daily food, your salad can contain |
| of science, your great grandparents were likely | | | | cabbage, onions, tomatoes, olives, radishes, lemon, |
| telling their children not to miss any meals, | | | | coriander, etc., the list is endless. Making a good |
| especially breakfast. The more science catches up | | | | dish of salad or eating these in their complete |
| to our ancestors wisdom in this area, the more | | | | form anything is alright if you enjoy it. In many |
| we see that lifestyle diseases such as diabetes | | | | cultures around the world, especially among |
| can result when we intake unhealthy foods at | | | | vegetarians, eating salads raw or after |
| irregular times in irregular quantities. Another | | | | combination of different salads is quite common. |
| advice of our ancestors was to drink water | | | | Your skin care regimen should also include eating |
| regularly. Although our ancestors may not have | | | | freshly cooked food, avoiding eating red meat |
| correctly understood the effects of water, this | | | | regularly, instead try and use more of pulses and |
| has proven a healthy habit for overall health and | | | | legumes, these provide as much nutrition and also |
| skin health. Your body cannot function at ultimate | | | | contain the healthy fiber. You can also switch to |
| health and make quick repairs to itself unless you | | | | eating brown bread which is rich in fiber rather |
| are properly hydrated. While the exact amount | | | | than eating the normal bread, which is made of |
| you should drink each day varies, no one disputes | | | | refined flour which has negligible fiber content. Skin |
| the role good hydration plays in keeping skin | | | | care demands that the food has fiber, so that the |
| looking healthy and even young. When that | | | | bowels are cleaned better and the toxins are |
| hydration comes from pure, clean water -- not | | | | flushed out regularly. If you care for your skin and |
| liquids such as soda or even soup -- experts say | | | | want to look younger for longer, skin care should |
| skin cells rejoice. While any good, clean water will | | | | include health food. |
| keep your body and your skin hydrated, Lipski | | | | Michalle Law is the professional freelance writer. |
| says hard water, the kind high in minerals, is | | | | He's also the webmaster of Newgetlive. |