Who doesn’t want to have clear, flawless, and beautiful skin? Although lotions and other beauty treatments can improve your skin from outside, a balanced diet works from inside out. For most skin issues, the most effective solution is not the application of creams, lotions, and balms to the skin surface, but what we eat. Most external skin treatments offer only a temporary and skin-deep solution and do not resolve the true internal cause of the problem. A healthy balanced diet is more than just a great way to eat – it can work wonders for your skin. BEBE AFRIKANA presents to you the essential things that will help improve your skin.
YOU ARE WHAT YOU EAT
A diet for a healthy body is the same as for healthy, beautiful skin and clear complexion. That is one with lots of fresh fruits and vegetables, high in fiber, low in fat, and low in added sugar and salt. This should provide your body and skin with all the vitamins and minerals they require to work at its best.
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These are important things that your body requires to keep your skin in perfect condition.
- The most essential element is water. Although there is water in the foods you eat, you should drink at least 2 litres (quarts) of water a day to keep your body healthy and your skin clear.
- Cellulose carbohydrates, better known as fibre foods, have another less direct effect on the skin. Their action in keeping you regular can help to give a brighter, clearer complexion and beautiful skin.
- Vitamin A is essential for the growth and repair of certain skin tissues. Lack of it causes dryness, itching, and loss of skin elasticity. Its found in food such as carrots, spinach, broccoli, and apricots.
- Vitamin C is needed for collagen production, to help keep your skin firm. Its found in foods such as strawberries, citrus fruits, cabbage, tomatoes, and watercress.
- Vitamin E is an antioxidant vitamin that neutralizes free radicals – highly reactive molecules that can cause ageing. It occurs in foods such as almonds, hazelnuts, and wheat germ.
- Zinc works with vitamin A in the making of collagen and elastin, the fibres that give your skin its strength, elasticity, and firmness. It occurs in shellfish, whole grains, milk, cheese, and yoghurt.