Turn Away Wrinkles by Eating Healthy Foods

Saturday, September 12th, 2009 at 5:11 pm

Healthy foods are not the most well liked. However, they can be delicious with very little trouble. Use the information below to motivate yourself to eat fruit instead of something that is fruit flavored.

A lot of healthy foods will help improve the way your skin looks. A great benefit to eating healthy is the fact that it will help you look younger and you will live longer. In other words, if you want to eat some sort of junk food that is not too good for you, you should just grab a handful of nuts instead. Sound not nearly as appealing? It may by the time you are done reading…

Here are just a few healthy foods that are proven age-fighters:

• Oranges, grapefruits and other citrus fruits
Oranges and other citrus and extremely high in vitamin C. Vitamin C is one of the best products out there as it literally seals up the wrinkles and cracks in your skin. Vitamin C is used widely in topical anti-aging products. But you must be able to heal from within too and if you eat oranges you will get a huge dose of vitamin C.

• Walnuts
Walnuts are loaded with antioxidants. This makes them great suppliers of certain cancer fighting compounds. Not only will they keep skin cancer from developing, they can also fight discoloration and other types of environmental weathering.

• Green tea
Green tea is another great source for antioxidants.

• Almonds
Almonds are very well known for the amount of vitamin E they contain. If you apply vitamin E topically then it will lighten scars and stretch marks. Using vitamin E topically an diminish the appearance of age spots. Taken internally vitamin E will actually help to prevent age spots from forming.

(Note: if you are having surgery anytime soon, you should as your doctor what is the correct amount of vitamin E for your diet. Taking extra vitamin E will make people bleed more, so you should probably stop taking supplements for now)

As you can see, there are numerous reasons to eat healthy. So the next time you want to skip healthy eating, just re-read this article for the extra motivation you need.