Eat Your Way To Beauty

Touch your skin. Does it feel greasy, dry or even rough? Its texture reveals many facts about your diet. Your health, skin, nails and body are results of the food you consume. A balanced diet- one where you avoid processed foods, refined sugars, and concentrate on fruits, vegetables, cereals, meats and dairy products- is the key to good nutrition and beauty. A balanced diet supplies all vitamins, minerals, proteins and carbohydrates needed for good health. Let's face it- when you feel good, you look good. You become what you eat.

Your daily diet should consists of:

• 4 serves of vegetables and fruits,
• 3/4 serve of cereal, bread and grain,
• 2 serves of milk and dairy products,
• 2 serves of meat, fish, poultry, or eggs.

Vitamins:
Vitamins play a vital role in all over beauty. Below is a list of all vitamins, there food source and their beauty advantages

Vitamin A:
Food Source: dairy products, citrus fruits, green vegetables and carrots.
Advantage: helps prevent skin dryness, aids healing of burns and improves acne.

Vitamin B,B1, B2, B6, B12:
Food Source: whole grains, leafy vegetables. liver and yeast.
Advantage: improves nervous system, skin, heart and liver.

Vitamin C:
Food Source: fruits(especially citrus fruit) green vegetables, tomatoes and fresh milk.
Advantage: helps immunity to colds, helps assimilation of other vitamins and improve acne.

Vitamin E:
Food Source: green leafy vegetables, wheat germ.
Advantage: helps heal cuts and wounds.

Vitamin F & K:
Food Source: liver , tomatoes, green leafy vegetables.
Advantage: aids the treatment of skin disorders, eg. dermatitis.

Vitamin H:
Food Source: brewer's yeast, nuts beef liver.
Advantage: improves tissue repair and skin condition.

Vitamin F:
Food Source: Citrus fruits usually with vitamin C.
Advantage: helps strengthen capillaries by keeping capillary walls flexible.

The Inside Story Of Skin Care

Good nutrition and regular elimination are essential for terrific skin. Fresh fruits and vegetables and lots of water provide what your skin needs to carry out its duties and to radiate good health. Through proper nutrition your skin needs to carry out its duties ad to radiate good health. Through proper nutrition your skin is offered an abundance of good things: vitamins, minerals, protein, fatty acids and trace elements. The natural fiber in a fresh food diet allows the efficient elimination of wastes that keeps your skin healthy and beautiful. Water also helps in the removal of wastes from your body. It is recommended to drink at least 8 glasses of water a day.

All the good things you take in with your diet will serve your skin in some way. Vitamin A, for example, helps regulate the work of the sebaceous ducts to the surface where it mixes up with sweat to form an emulsion that protects the skin. The vitamin B complex keeps nerves healthy and controls excessive oiliness. Riboflavin, vitamin B2, has an important job in providing cellular oxygen. This is vital because it allows nutrients to be used up properly and cellular wastes to be eliminated. Vitamin C is necessary for the protection of the collagen fibers in the dermis and to give strength to capillaries that take nutrients to the skin. For super-radiant skin as well as for a healthy well functioning body, avoid refined foods and stick to delicious fresh variety of fruits, green vegetables and other nutritious items.