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Skin Care and Diet
Just about every trade journal this first quarter of 2011 has had an article about the SKINCARE DIET. And today I just got an email newsletter mentioning the rewards for skin when you eat healthy.
Poor chocolate lovers, forever thinking that chocolate leads to breakouts. That tale got started and still comes up despite research having never proved a fatal connection. But the connection surely stands that there is a link between diet and skin. Yep, skin is influenced by what we choose to eat.
Eating the right foods can lead to healthier cell production, less dry skin, more radiance, fewer breakouts, less wrinkles, and greater skin resiliency. More broadly and like our other organs, the link between nutrition and health/wellness affects those negatives known as premature aging, chronic pain, immune malfunctions, and diseases.
Is there a key contributor to the aging and disease factors? Poor diet, sun damage, but most likely key is the effects of stress. Oxidative stress and resulting “inflammation”. Can diet help? To quote Dr. Welches, a pain specialist at the Cleveland Clinic, “An anti-inflammatory diet is the single most important thing I offer patients for pain control and the single hardest thing for them to do.”
Hard because the typical American diet contains so many processed foods. Keep on keeping on with what we know to avoid: refined sugar, saturated and trans-fats, processed foods, red meat, highly processed foods, white flour, and too many desserts. ATTACK ACNE by eliminating common allergy causing foods like corn, peanuts, eggs, soy, citrus and dairy.
From what I read, hear from clients, and experience myself, it’s not too late to begin reducing the effects of free radical damage and inflammation on your skin as well as inside your body. Use products with antioxidants. Eat foods with antioxidants. Cook with olive and canola oils.
Pay attention to healthy foods that work to reduce inflammation like coffee. (Am I your friend now?) Yes, coffee can be a good source of antioxidants along with green tea. And of course the fruits and veggies.
Appearance-boosting foods:
Deeply colored berries (at Invigorations there will be new raspberry bushes coming up if you want a sprig), deeply colored vegetables, peppers, salmon, walnuts, olive oil, whole grains, flax seeds, and yogurt to help gut health (can reduce ROSACEA). My son says especially the Greek yogurt. Also, Zinc found in chickpeas, pumpkin seeds, wheat germ may help control oil production and reduce ACNE lesions.
Janet and I take the Juice Plus supplements every day. This is what I like about these Juice and Veggie capsules containing dehydrated real food: they contain WHOLE FOODS. Whole food nutrition makes sense to me especially compared to vitamins manufactured in a laboratory because your body actually makes the choices about what it needs and wants rather than guessing if you have enough vitamin D to absorb the proper amounts of calcium to encourage the uptake of….on and on.
Let us know if you are interested in the Juice Plus and we can give you the numbers in order to receive preferred pricing. Check out the Juice Plus web site and the clinical research.
By Sharyn Madison, Licensed Aesthetician and Skin Care Therapist
