How to Reduce Wrinkles With Diet

Blueberries are rich in Vitamin C.

You are what you eat, when it comes to the lines on your face. It is possible to reduce wrinkles by modifying your diet. While no diet will completely eliminate wrinkles, there are foods you can eat which help keep skin firm and less prone to wrinkling. Rather than spend a lot of money on anti-wrinkle creams, eat for the health of your skin instead. The proactive approach to reducing wrinkles with diet also involves avoiding certain foods. By combining the proactive approach of eating foods which help promote healthy, skin-firming collagen and by avoiding foods which can harden collagen, you can reduce wrinkles.

Things You'll Need

• Willingness to add foods to diet
• Ability to reduce or remove foods from the diet
• Access to fresh foods

Instructions

1. Eating colorful foods is not only fun, it's good for reducing wrinkles. Fruits and vegetables with rich colors contain a high concentration of vitamin C. Vitamin C is one vitamin which contributes to healthy collagen. Collagen helps keep skin firm. Fresh fruits and vegetables containing high concentrations of vitamin C. In addition to blueberries, also consider adding blackberries, cherries, cranberries and raspberries to a diet to help reduce wrinkles.

2. Drink to your skin with water. Drinking water regularly helps keep skin healthy and hydrated. Water helps the body carry nutrients to the skin, nutrients you consume by eating vitamin-rich foods.

3. Eat more orange sea foods such as salmon, to promote healthy skin and reduce wrinkles with diet. A food like salmon contains both protein and the Omega-3 fatty acid. Both of these nutrients help keep skin healthy. Lobster is another good food to add to your diet to reduce wrinkles. Lobster and salmon both contain astaxanthin, which is a powerful anti-oxidants that protects the skin and can help to repair the skin.

4. Reduce refined sugar intake in your diet to reduce wrinkles. Excessive sugar in foods can harden collagen. Hardened collagen will weigh down delicate skin and skin will begin to sag, forming visible wrinkles. When you do eat foods or drink hot beverages with sugar, consider adding a bit of cinnamon. Cinnamon helps to reduce your body's blood sugar from rising too much when it is mixed with sugar.

5. Add soy-based foods to a diet to help reduce wrinkles. Soy-based foods may improve the structure of the skin. Skin will look more firm, and not wrinkly. Other natural foods to add to a diet promoting wrinkle-free skin include grape-seed oil and wheat germ.

6. Cut back on the amount of caffeine you consume each day. Caffeine can be in coffee, your tea and your soda. Drinking too much caffeine can dehydrate you and your skin.

Tips & Warnings

• Do not go overboard with too much iron, which can increase wrinkles.

Resources

• World's Healthiest Foods