October 7, 2009
Get More Youthful Skin from Healthy Foods
Healthy foods are not the most well liked. Nonetheless, they can really taste great with little trouble. Use the information below to motivate yourself to eat fruit instead of something that is fruit flavored.
Healthy foods can actually keep wrinkles and signs of aging at bay. In fact, just eating right can not only help you live longer, it can also help you look younger while you are doing it. In other words, you should forego that peanut butter crunch bar and instead grab a handful of nuts. So this doesn’t sound as good? Maybe it will by the time you are finished reading this.
Below is just a sampling of healthy foods that are proven age-fighters:
• Oranges, grapefruits and other citrus fruits
Oranges and citrus fruits are high in vitamin C. Vitamin C is one of the best healers out there when it comes to literally sealing up wrinkles and cracks in your skin. Topical vitamin C is popular in anti-aging products. However, the ability to heal from within is also important and eating oranges will give you a major dose of this vitamin.
• Walnuts
Walnuts have heavy amounts of antioxidants. This makes them great suppliers of certain cancer fighting compounds. They will not only block skin cancer from forming but can also fight all types of weathering to your skin.
• Green tea
Another good source of antioxidants is green tea.
• Almonds
Almonds and almond oil are full of vitamin E. Vitamin E will actually lighten scars and stretch marks when applied topically. It can also diminish existing age spots. However, when taken internally vitamin E can help prevent the formation of these marks in the first place.
(Note: if you are about to have surgery, ask your doctor about the appropriate amount of vitamin E for your diet. Extra vitamin E can actually make people bleed more, so you may want to stop taking it or any other supplements at this time)
There really are a lot of great reasons to eat healthy foods. Next time you need extra motivation, reread this and you won’t be tempted to skip the healthy foods.
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September 21, 2009
The Key to Skin Nutrition: Vitamin Creams
There are often vitamin creams that are neglected when it comes to people’s beauty routines. These creams can make a major difference in the way that your skin looks. Different vitamins will help with different types of skin issues.
You probably remember to take a general vitamin every day. The same idea goes with applying vitamin cream. A vitamin cream should be applied topically. This means that they are absorbed through the skin rather than the stomach. The results of this application are completely different than if you took the vitamins orally.
There are four major players when you are dealing with topical vitamins. Your skin can derive benefit from nearly every vitamin. But these four help deal with major skin care issues.
A vitamin cream generally is intended for direct application to a problem area. Your cream will contain, depending on your issue:
• Vitamin A for tighter skin. Vitamin A helps skin stay hydrated. It also gives skin a more youthful look. Vitamin A is also found in some creams as retinol. It might cause sun sensitivity. Use it carefully.
• Vitamin E for scarring. Scars and tears can be healed with the help of vitamin E. This makes it a great treatment for deep wrinkles. Lots of people use vitamin E oil on scars and stretch marks.
• Vitamin K to help with discoloration. If you have problems with rosacea, then vitamin K is a must. You can also treat sun and age spots this way. Some types of vitamin K creams can cause you to break out. Make sure that you monitor your skin closely for the results that you want.
• Vitamin C for anti-aging action. Vitamin C is a great healer internally and externally. This means that vitamin C can really heal wrinkles. But it can blister sensitive skin. Use it carefully and make sure to monitor results closely.
You can definitely get serious results with topically applied vitamins. When paired with an oral vitamin as well, you will find that the correct form of vitamin cream results in dramatically improved skin.
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