Hello, and welcome to our Healthy Skin Diet article series. In this 5-part series, we’ll explore how healthy choices in diet make for healthy skin.  We’ll identify the various vitamins, nutrients, minerals, and supplements that are beneficial to the health of your skin. You’ll discover a number of tips that you might want to take note of throughout this entire series (and site).  The information in this article series has been sourced from our upcoming Official Skin Care Guide.   

Oh…as a side note, when we say diet, we don’t necessarily mean it in the weight loss sense of the word. You don’t necessarily have to lose weight to benefit from this article series.


This first article serves as a general introduction to nutritious dieting and how it helps your skin care regimen…


Just as eating right and getting the right nutrition benefits your health, it also benefits our skin. What we eat and the vitamins we take affect how our skin looks and feels. It is also a known fact that nutritional intake also affects how age. The combination of a good diet and nutritional supplements keep your skin not only looking healthy but young.


It is suggested based on numerous studies that eating foods rich in anti-oxidants, such as fresh fruits and vegetables, whole grains, foods rich in omega 3 fatty acids, and legumes, can help your skin stay healthy and look young.


Free radicals are considered the main culprits that cause cellular damage and toxicity. It is the result of the damage of free radicals that age our skin and make us prematurely look and feel older. To help counteract the damage of free radicals to our bodies, you want to eat foods rich in antioxidants. That means you want to eat lots of dark and rich-colored fruits and vegetables. Those are the main sources of antioxidant foods. The deeper or richer the color, the more antioxidant is present in that food.

 

For example, berries and plums (either fresh or frozen) are some of the best sources for skin antioxidants. Artichokes and prunes are also another good skin anti-oxidant source. When choosing an antioxidant food regimen, the rule of thumb is to have lots of them, and vary the colors. This way, you don’t miss any of the nutrients that the various colored foods have to offer.


In terms of overall dietary consumption to help your skin, you definitely want to eat a balanced diet. You want to choose what is referred to as healthy carbohydrates. This means whole grains as opposed to processed and refined carbohydrate sources. When it comes to carbohydrates, you want to eat complex as opposed to simple and brown, green and darker colors as opposed to white. When you eat complex carbohydrates, you get antioxidants, also and fiber, which helps eliminate toxins from the system.

 

Systemic toxicity is also another cause for skin breakouts. It’s the system’s reaction to toxins in the body. Also, complex carbohydrates are digested at a slower rate, thus you don’t get insulin spikes like you do with simple carbs. Insulin is one of those hormones that can create havoc on skin when it’s out of balance.


That concludes the first of this 5-part Healthy Skin Diet article series. In Part 2, we’ll look into more specific nutrients you can take as part of a nutritious approach to skin care.

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