How Diet Can Affect Your Skin Health?

A healthy, glowing complexion says a lot about your skin and your diet. The condition of our skin reflects what we eat and highlights the importance of looking after yourself from the inside out. Food is fuel and our bodies function best when we provide it with healthy, balanced and nutritious food.??

What you eat is important for your health; and your health is important for all of your organs – including the most visible organ, your skin or dermal layer. It’s also one of the first places that tell tale signs of sun damage, poor nutrition, inadequate sleep and other less-than-healthy lifestyle factors show their impacts.

Let’s look at how Vitamins can help improve our skin health!??

1. Vitamin A

• Vitamin A plays a significant role in cellular renewal and healthy skin.
• This vitamin comes from both animal and plant sources, with carotenoids being the plant source and retinoids, the animal source.
• Retinoids like those contained within vitamin A encourage the reconstruction of collagen and help to remove dead skin cells from the top layer of the epidermis to reveal new healthier skin underneath.

You may find vitamin A in the following foods: Sweet Potatoes, Carrots, Dark Leafy Greens, Winter Squashes, Lettuce, Dried Apricots, Cantaloupe, Bell Peppers, Fish, Liver, and Tropical Fruits.

2. Vitamin C

• Vitamin C is imperative to the production of collagen in your body.
• Vitamin C is thought of as a free radical-fighting antioxidant, which might help prevent the breakdown and loss of collagen.
• Antioxidants are important for cellular renewal and are essential to the formation of collagen.
• As we are unable to naturally produce vitamin C, we must rely on eating foods or supplements that helps us maintain enough Vitamin C.

You may find vitamin C in the following foods: Oranges, Red Peppers, Kale, Brussel Sprouts, Broccoli, Strawberries, Grapefruit, and Guava.

There are plenty other food sources that can help you boost your Vitamin C intake; but these suggestions seem to have the most ‘punch’ in terms of improving your Vitamin C nutrition.

3. Vitamin E

• Vitamin E may help protect your body from the damage of premature ageing caused by sun damage or environmental pollutants.
• When combined with vitamin C, the two work well together to help reconstruct collagen.
• This can help keep your skin to have more youthful looking, as well as helping your skin to retain moisture, firmness and suppleness.

You may find vitamin C in the following foods: Nuts, Avocado, Spinach, Whole Grains and Seafood.

4. Vitamin D

• Vitamin D plays an important role in skin tone and collagen production and the renewal of healthy cells.
• Your recommended daily vitamin D intake should be about 600 International Units (IU) per day (ask your doctor before taking any supplements).
• You may need more if you are pregnant or over the age of 70.

You can naturally increase your vitamin D intake by:

• Getting 10 minutes of sun exposure ?? a day (check with your doctor first, especially if you have a history of skin cancer  – and avoid the most intense times of the day in terms of dangerous rays) – DO avoid sunburns as they can lead to skin cancer and pigmentation problems including Melasma
• Eating vitamin D fortified foods (read the labels but also check for hidden salts or sugar first), such as breakfast cereals, orange juice, and yogurt
• Eating foods that naturally have vitamin D, especially sea foods such as salmon, tuna, mackerel or cod, beef liver, cheese and egg yolks.

Follows the above list of guidelines will have your skin looking and feeling it’s best in no time. You can increase your body’s natural ability to produce collagen by eating right and maintaining a healthy lifestyle! Please Like and Follow our social media to be notified about our latest offers and promotions!!