How to keep your skin with healthy & beautifully

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By kellypoon
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Healthy Skin

Beautiful skin is healthy skin. And healthy skin starts with a healthy diet, like this one.

Eat lots of different types of fruits and vegetables with side helpings of 100% whole wheat bread and other whole grains. Eat good fats, such as olive oil, and avoid bad fats, such as butter. Eat less protein than you think. Ditto dairy. Drink lots of water. Avoid processed food, which means avoiding almost everything in a sealed can or box or bag, because no body craves a good dose of preservatives and other chemicals. Ditto white bread and pasta and rice and sugar.

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Step 1

THE 4 BEST FOODS FOR BEAUTIFULLY HEALTHY SKIN ---> Green leafy vegetables, the darker green the better Kale and spinach and romaine and all the dark green leafy stuff you can lay your hands on are loaded with Vitamin A. Vitamin A counteracts wrinkles. It also gives you healthy blood circulation which gives you gorgeous skin that just glows.
Step 2

Blueberries ---> That gorgeous color is also the reason these berries are such good antioxidants. See, antioxidants fight free radicals. Free radicals are molecules. These molecules, among other things, can damage tissue. And you want to keep your tissue nice and healthy if you want to avoid premature aging. I use fresh blueberries when they are locally available in my morning smoothie. In the winter, when local blueberries are not to be had, I use frozen. Now, I know I told you to avoid sealed bags, but flip that bag of frozen berries over and the best ones will have only one ingredient: Blueberries. So you’re good to go (in fact, a lot of frozen fruits and vegetables have great ingredient lists; just remember to read the list on the back, not the hype on the front to see what you are really buying).
Step 3

Olive oil ---> It tastes good, it is way better for you than butter, and it gives you the baby’s bottom skin you’ve always wanted. Really. There are two things you need to know about olive oil. First, if you are going to cook with it, it has a fairly low smoking point. A smoking point is just what it sounds like: The point where an oil starts to smoke. When you hit the smoking point, two things happen. First, the oil can change flavor, and not for the better. And second, you may be entering carcinogenic territory. Now, I cook with olive oil all the time. But I use good pans that heat up nicely and evenly and retain heat and I keep my heat level to the mid-range or less. And I rarely hit the smoking point. Second, if you want to give up butter but can’t stand to give up dessert, have I got a treat for you: A cake recipe that uses olive oil instead of butter. Brilliant, eh? It’s a lemon olive oil cake that’s moist and wonderful. I serve it with fresh blueberries.
Step 4

Green tea ---> This is on top of its helping to prevent cancer and heart disease and osteoporosis and . . . well, there are lots of reasons to drink green tea.

Now, for me, the problem with green tea is I am just not all that fond of it. So these days, I make my morning smoothie with half green tea and half soy milk s well as berries and yogurt and so on. It works, and tastes, like a dream.