A healthy and balanced diet helps protect your insides from disease and sickness, but it also does wonders for your skin. The right vegetables, nuts, seeds, oils, fish, and other great nutrients slow down the ageing process and keep you looking good. Here are some common and not so common foods that can work magic on your skin.
Carrots
Carrots are a colourful, crunchy snack and great to grab on the run, plus they are loaded with vitamin A, which helps balance the pH of your skin’s surface, making it just acidic enough to fend off harmful bacteria. The US National Cancer Institute found that people with the highest intakes of carotenoids—pigments that occur naturally in carrots—were six times less likely to develop skin cancer than those with the lower intakes.
Berries
Blackberries, blueberries and strawberries are very high in antioxidants which are great for your skin. Also on this list are artichokes, beans, prunes, and pecans.
Almonds
Almonds are stuffed with vitamin E, which helps defend against sun damage and because vitamin E is an antioxidant, it also works to keep your arteries free of dangerous free radicals.
Flaxseeds
Flaxseeds are small, but packed full of omega-3 fatty acids, which erase spots and iron out fine lines. Salmon is also full of omegas.
Tomatoes
Lycopene, the phytochemical that makes tomatoes red, helps eliminate skin-aging free radicals caused by ultraviolet rays. Cooking tomatoes helps concentrate its lycopene levels, so tomato sauce, tomato paste, and even ketchup are effective for protection. Also on this list is watermelon.
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