Superfoods for Radiant Skin

The billion dollar anti-aging industry can't wait to launch it's next brand of snake oil on it's unsuspecting and desperate victim. The competition never ends for your hard earned buck. The fact is that topical solutions treat only the surface area of the skin where the damage has already been done. They may soften fine lines, but they won't erase them. Those wrinkled dead cells are there to stay unless we grow new cells.

Aging is the simplistic term we use for the bio breakdown in the body. People tend to live similar lifestyles and eat similar foods, so that breakdown, or aging, is quite uniform across society. When a person breaks the mold, we say things like, "doesn't she look great for her age?", translated, "we see something different in you and don't understand how you got it."

The key to younger skin, firmer joints and overall good health is in the cellular structure of the body. The breakdown of cells, mostly caused by diet, is the main target for cellular repair. When we eat dead food, which is all animal flesh and processed foods, our living cells die. A continual diet of such lifeless foods will not allow the body to repair itself. The more living food we eat, such as fresh fruit, raw vegetables and legumes, allows the body to rebuild itself, thus becoming age-defying. A vegetarian lifestyle is not for everyone, but the more you can do to bulid living tissue, the healthier you'll become. If you're a meat eater, have your steak, but keep the dead food to a minimum and while increasing the living food. Healthy choices are all about balance.One bite a plus, another a minus. With a determined effort, you can outweigh the bad with the good.

Certain foods high in antioxydants, such as brightly colored vegetables, all berries and melons, etc, contain super nutrients to rebuild your body at the cellular level. In addition to supplements such as vitamins C, E, and beta carotein, a steady diet of superfoods will take years off your face and add them to your life. Vitamin C is particularly important for the skin, as it's an essential component to make collegen, which rivives elasticity in the skin. The anti-inflammatory proprties in polyphenols will protect your skin from aging, and promote overall good health. Foods high in this miracle working agent are blueberries, strawberries,onions, raspberries, grapes, cranberries, yams, carrots, soybeans, apples and pumkin.

A good way to increase you intake of polyphenol foods is to juice them. A mixture of 10 carrots with an apple and a handful of berries will yield a tall glass of juice, containing all the nutrients necessary for the day. For an extra sweetened flavor, and a boost of natural sugar, try adding a beet. This juiced combination is more than what we could eat in a day, but in a juicer, it makes just one power-packed serving that will energize you all day. There are many quality juicers on the market, but I recommend Jack Lalanne's for it's easy to clean design.

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