How To Feed Your Skin
Although it’s necessary to take care of our skin from the outside throughout the winter months, it’s equally important to care for our skin from the inside. It’s easy to cozy up with a warm meal and decadent sweets, but what we digest translates to our skin, painting a picture of our internal health. Holistic Nutritionist, Anise Thorogood, Love & Garnish, emphasizes how eating a balanced diet of whole, fresh, clean, and seasonal foods is the first step in seeing a radiant and healthy complexion.
We all have our favourite products and routines that work for us, but beautiful skin also comes from within. The most important factor is hydration. Those eight to ten glasses of water per day are no joke. Without adequate hydration the skin cannot maintain its flexibility and will appear dry, cracked, and dull. If you find it difficult to drink plain water all day long, try adding a few slices of lemon. It not only tastes refreshing, but lemon supports your liver’s ability to expel toxins from the body so that your skin doesn’t have to – keeping you blemish free.
Anise also recommends avoiding too many sugary drinks, caffeine, and trans and hydrogenated fats that all work to dehydrate the skin and hinder liver function. When added to your diet over time, superfoods can drastically improve your healthy, natural glow. See our list of superfoods that promote amazing skin benefits below and get ready to show Mother Nature who’s boss by taking care of your health and your skin naturally from the inside out.
Top 8 Foods for glowing skin
(Helps repair skin cells and is used for Collagen formation. Avoid Farmed Fish)
Omega 3: Reduces skin dryness and improves skin’s elasticity; also anti-inflammatory.
Zinc: Improves skin luminosity and assists in the structure of cell membranes, helping to keep moisture in.
Selenium: Improves elasticity and luminosity of skin.
Omega 3: Reduces skin dryness and improves skin’s elasticity; also anti-inflammatory.
Glutathione: An antioxidant, helps combat aging.
(Aids liver detoxification. Aim for organic.)
Vitamin A: Combats aging of the skin and helps regenerate skin cells; also prevents dryness, roughness, and scaliness.
Vitamin E: A potent antioxidant, combats free radicals that age the skin.
Vitamin C: A potent antioxidant, combats skin aging; also used for collagen formation and helps the skin look luminous and young.
Vitamin B: Required for the growth of new skin cells and replacing those that have died; helps prevent peeling and cracking of the skin; also assists in hormone balance.
Fibre: Aids in bowel health, helping to excrete toxins efficiently.
Vitamin C: A potent antioxidant, combats skin aging; also used for collagen formation and helps the skin look luminous and young.
Vitamin A: Combats aging of the skin and helps regenerate skin cells; also prevents dryness, roughness, and scaliness.
Omega 3: Reduces skin dryness and improves skin’s elasticity; also anti-inflammatory.
Vitamin B: Required for the growth of new skin cells and replacing those that have died; helps prevent peeling and cracking of the skin; also assists in hormone balance.
Zinc: Improves skin luminosity and assists in the structure of cell membranes, helping to keep moisture in.
Vitamin E: A potent antioxidant, combats free radicals that age the skin.
Silica: Promotes skin hydration and skin cell proliferation.
Vitamin C: A potent antioxidant, combats skin aging; also used for collagen formation and helps the skin look luminous and young.
Fibre: Aids in bowel health, helping to excrete toxins efficiently.
Vitamin A: Combats aging of the skin and helps regenerate skin cells; also prevents dryness, roughness, and scaliness.
Vitamin D: Encourages cell growth and helps absorb calcium which aids in bone growth.
Fermented foods are needed for healthy gut flora which boosts immunity, helps break down food so that nutrients are taken to the cells efficiently, produces B vitamins, and helps excrete toxins (rather than excreted through the skin).
Prebiotic foods such as cabbage (sauerkraut) and asparagus are good for healthy gut flora so the good bacteria can flourish.
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