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How Does Your Overall Diet Affect Your Skin?

October 7, 2016NewsArticleFitnessHealthMedical

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What we eat everyday affects your skin in more ways than one!

Additionally, many people do not realize that your overall health and your skin are closely related. Eating bad foods such as items with too much sugar or even fast food can really wreak havoc on your skin. For example, sugar has been proven to cause inflammation. This in return produces enzymes that break down collagen and elastin, resulting in sagging skin and wrinkles.

Check out these easy and delicious 4 ways to alter your diet to heal you achieve healthier skin. 

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 Eat “Clean” With Fish, Fruit, and Veggies

Eating more fish, leafy greens, and fruit can play a major role in the health of yoru skin. People who eat diets like this have more omega-3 fatty acids from fish that keep skin cells strong an elastic. Reduction of skin elasticity is a fact of aging for most people. Skin elasticity is the skin’s need to stretch and then go back to normal. Preserving the elasticity in your skin allows for it  to look more youthful.

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Cut Back on Bread and Pasta

Lowering the intake of carb-heavy foods actually lowers the stress hormone cortisol. Lowering your cortisol levels helps to minimize pesky breakouts. Breakouts can eventually lead to long-term blemishes that can really ruin your overall completion and can may require extra work to try to clear up. Swap these foods for better choices such as zuchini pasta instead of traditional pasta to lower your carb intake.

 

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Introduce Olive oil into your diet

Not only is olive oil a good way to help you skin within your diet, but it also can be applied directly to skin to reap the benefits. Olive oil also contains monounsaturated fat, unsaturated fats that are known to increase your overall cardiovascular health. 

Increasing your intake of these foods can help you to achieve and maintain healthier, more attractive looking skin. Your diet has the ability to directly affect your skin and making healthier food choices can help you to fight against elasticity loss and premature skin aging.

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