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Here's some diet for your Beauty too
Your diet contributes a great deal towards making you
beautiful. Therefore eating a proper healthy diet is
important to keep looking beautiful. Given below are
a number of food items that you should include in your
beauty diet.
- Almonds: These nuts are known for their anti-aging
properties. They contain a lot of vitamin E and have
a high amount of fatty acids that help to keep your
skin supple. Almonds also contain antioxidant selenium.
Do not too many of them as they will add calories.
A handful is enough.
- Protein: To keep nails strong and moisturized
by eating plenty of protein. Protein helps in the
build up of keratin. Keratin is the substance that
makes up nails. Skinless, boneless chicken breast,
lean turkey, tuna and beans are rich in proteins.
- Vitamin B: Food that is rich in vitamin B
makes your hair shiny. Important sources of this vitamin
are eggs, milk, green vegetables and poultry. Silica
is important to keep your hair elastic, shiny and
healthy. Raw oats, cucumber skin, onions and bean
sprouts are rich in this mineral.
- Fish: Eating oily fish like salmon that contain
omega-3 fatty acids will help hydrating and nourishing
skin.
- Zinc and Calcium: Both these minerals help
in eradicating pimples. Zinc is found in oysters,
turkey, seafood, eggs and milk. Calcium is no doubt
good for your bones, but helps in clearing your skin
too. Calcium rich foods like skim milk, low-fat cheese
and yogurt. These foods not only remove pimples but
reduce wrinkles as well.
- Vitamin C: Vitamin C helps in the build up
of collagen, which reduces wrinkles. When your skin
has more collagen your skin retains its elasticity
and wrinkles take longer to form. Kiwi fruit is the
best source of vitamin C. Other good sources are oranges,
mango, honeydew and papaya.
- Vitamin E: Vitamin E is known to ease the
swelling and redness associated with sunburns. Swelling
causes the stretching of skin that in turns leads
to wrinkle formation. Eat plenty of peaches and blueberries
to increase the build up of vitamin E in your body.
- Vitamin C and Iron: Vitamin C and iron together
help to reduce the dark circles under your eyes. Eat
skinless chicken and red, yellow and orange peppers.
These are rich in both and will help in reducing dark
circles.
- Water: Drink as much as water as you can.
Water removes the toxins from the body and refreshes
your skin and makes in glow. Water hydrates your skin
and keeps it supple.
- Tomatoes: Tomatoes contains skin-caner-fighting
antioxidants: beta-carotene, vitamin C and lycopene.
Eat tomatoes in any form and you will ingest these
antioxidants. To increase the body's absorption of
lycopene cook tomatoes in a little olive oil.
- Apples and Celery: To remove stain from the
enamel of your teeth eat crunchy foods like apples
and celery.
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