What Eat For Glowy Skin?

We could all adopt some simple changes in our diets to eat for skin health you might have heard of anti-wrinkle diets you might have heard of low glycemic diets, but essentially she brought all those skin-orientated and general health and well-being orientated sensible nutritional steps together, and I thought I would share my take-home messages with you so let's go through the things I try to eat on a daily basis now eat a tomato a day now tomatoes are a brim-full of all sorts of skin loving uh ingredients and chemicals but the main one being vitamin C and lycopene is also present in tomatoes so great for skin health we know vitamin C is essential for collagen assembly for neurotransmitters in our brains, and they're also part and parcel of our immune system, so fundamental must be replaced every single day foodstuff Olive oil is going to help you in terms of its vitamin E consumption, but it will also help you absorb other nutrients from other foods so drizzle some olive oil over your tomato guess what avocados that's probably no surprise but half an avocado a day is going to deliver loads of goodness including vitamin E including carotenoids like lutein and good fats so half an avocado combine that with your tomato and your olive oil salad are looking pretty good blueberries are an absolute powerhouse when it comes to antioxidants, so we're all very caught up in supplementation but the reason I say eat your food from scratch is that there's so much more complexity to the antioxidants that you'll find in natural foods blueberries contain something like 13 000 different phytochemicals in precise quantities, so a couple of blueberries should be an absolute essential if you want to eat for skin and general health one of my favorite ways to incorporate those into overnight oats um with some almond milk and some yogurt for really delicious fiber-rich breakfast food and I might well add it to those overnight oats is an Apple the humble apple now you must eat that with your skin on for skin food because something like 8 000 different chemicals that are helpful um in terms of your health and well-being existing in the humble apple so obviously a good source of vitamin C too but take that apple grate it up mix it in with your oats and your, blueberries, and you really are starting the day on a really strong basis now, particularly in summer comes into play so foods that are rich in lycopene now one of the best is watermelon, but you can also seek out other orange and red foodstuffs, so tomatoes have lycopene papaya guava um strawberries they all contain lycopene which is really helpful in protecting skin from ultraviolet damage plus they're delicious too, so those are things That I really think about building into my everyday eating habits on the background of a good quality protein and based diet, so I think chicken yogurt um and cheese rather than mil butter and red meat as the sort of fundamental proteins in my diet I look for low glycemic index carbohydrates so brown rice sweet potato real than white rice and white potatoes, and then I think about supplements that I think that are difficult to get without really struggling to consume large quantities of certain foods, so I always supplement with vitamin D all year round you probably know that I think about getting omega-3s organic flaxseed is a great source and I think about taking a good quality mineral supplement, not like solar for that things to avoid there's no need to drink water excessively there's zero evidence um that across for really adding much to health benefits obviously drink to satisfy first but don't consume liters of water it's.