Healthy Food

By Kathryn Lane

Food for healthy skin is easy to find. The only secret is in making good choices. Here are some great foods for healthy skin, tips on supplements, and how to nourish your skin from the outside, too.

First, your food choices:

The most common food choices sold in fast food restaurants are mostly bad for your skin and overall health. Refined white bread and buns, the sugar in soda pop, the high-fat hamburger meat, and the dairy products in cheese and shakes, are definitely not your skin's friend.

A lot of people have their skin break out from eating these foods, especially if they do regularly. Even more important, they are missing many of the vitamins and other nutrients your skin needs. If soda, burgers and fried foods are your favorites, you can make a start by adding just a few of the following foods every week.

Here are some foods packed with nutrition for your skin:

-- Vegetables, raw and cooked. Green salads, the deeper green the better, are low in calories and high in vitamins, minerals and fiber. Deeper, more intense colors are almost always better. Romaine lettuce and spinach leaves are much better than iceberg lettuce; green, red, and orange peppers are great; so are tomatoes and chopped carrots.

-- Broccoli, cauliflower, spinach and brussels sprouts are all exceptionally vitamin-packed vegetables. It's best to cook them lightly and eat them while they're still intensely green and firm, not limp and soggy.

-- Fruits are high in nutrition, and deep, intense colors are a good guide here, too. Berries are generally best of all, especially blueberries, strawberries, blackberries and raspberries. Nectarines, plums and citrus fruit are good choices.

-- In meats, lower-fat types such as turkey, white chicken meat, and the leaner cuts of pork and beef are good choices.

-- In fish, the opposite is true. Fish are good food, but the best of all are the fatty fish: salmon, mackerel and sardines, for example. All of those are good sources of omega 3 oils, which are in poor supply in the diets of most of us.

Which leads me to vitamins and supplements.

-- Omega 3 fish oils are wonderful for your skin. They're anti-inflammatory and provide essential oils your body needs. Be sure to get purified fish oil -- the label should say it's molecularly distilled.

-- A good daily supplement containing vitamins, minerals and antioxidants is a wise choice.

And finally, a top-quality skin care lotion will contain ingredients that nourish your skin, such as Coenzyme Q10 in a microscopic particle size that can penetrate the skin -- Nano-Lipobelle H-EQ10 is the specific form I recommend.

Kathryn Lane is a longtime health and nutrition researcher. The best skincare products she has found have never been the most expensive or the most heavily advertised. Her websites recommend only products with a no-questions-asked, money-back guarantee: http://www.health-and-skin-site.com/ Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/?expert=Kathryn_Lane