Eat your way to beautiful skin

The secret to flawless, blemish and acne-free skin lies in nutrient-rich foods

Most of us want to prevent ageing, reverse ageing, or just age gracefully. All of us want a beautiful, glowing, radiant and shinning skin and hair. We spend thousands on skin and hair treatments and products. But, did you know we can achieve these things by simply changing food items on our plates? Beauty is not an overnight miracle.

Changing your diet is an underrated, efficient route to clearer, younger-looking skin. Healthy and clear skin truly begins from within. Here are a few beauty-boosting, nutrient-rich foods, vegetables worth eating every day. They are rich in naturally occurring vitamins, minerals and antioxidants that all work together synergistically to create beauty from the inside out.

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Walnuts

Walnuts have many characteristics that make them an excellent food for healthy skin. Packed with healthy essential fats, antioxidants, vitamins, trace minerals, protein and fiber, walnuts are a veritable superfood. Walnuts are enriched with the goodness of minerals, vitamins, natural oil, selenium, antioxidants, and essential fatty acids like omega 3, that work in the best way to make our skin and hair strong and healthy.

They are made up of 65 percent fat and about 15 percent of protein. You can include walnuts in your breakfast diet by adding them in cereals. Consuming walnuts helps the skin look younger and healthier as it helps strengthen the membranes of your skin cells. locking in moisture and nutrients that keep it plump and glowing and keeping out toxins that can damage skin cells.

You can also use walnut oil to help ease dry skin. Anecdotal evidence suggests that walnut oil may help keep skin moisturized. It may nourish skin from within. Walnut oil is great for fighting wrinkles. Regualar application on hair cleans scalp.

Sweet Potatoes

Want to be more attractive at no cost? Eat sweet potato. They are affordable, easily available and delicious. Shakarkandi chaat is one of the easiest and popular ways in which sweet potatoes are consumed in India. It is a good idea to add some sweet potatoes to your salads too since the sugar in sweet potatoes is released at a slow pace making it easier for our body to absorb.

Sweet potatoes are an excellent source of the magical skin-brightening combination of Vitamin A, E and Vitamin C which are important not only for general well-being but also slow down the ageing process. They are also full of biotin, which stimulates hair and nail growth.

You can also mix half cup cooked paste of sweet potatoes with one tsp milk and one tsp honey and apply this mixture on skin evenly for 30 minutes and wash it off with luke water for rejuvenating and radiant skin You can also simply rub a sweet potato slice on your face in a circular motion for 20 minutes. If you feel the potato slice has gone dry, use another slice.

Chia Seeds

Another great offering from the mint family, chia seeds are an unsung hero that can do wonders to your beauty regimen. They are a nutritional powerhouse containing 20 percent more protein than soy beans, plus added Omega-3’s that are critical to help prevent hair loss.

Mix four tablespoons of coconut oil, half cup of honey, and a tablespoon each of chia seeds and apple cider vinegar. Heat this mixture for 30-40 seconds so that all the ingredients get mixed properly. Apply the mixture on the hair strands and let it sit for 30 minutes. Wash it off for shinning hair.

Pineapple

Drinking, eating, and topically applying pineapple juice on a regular basis is a powerful, proven way for you to achieve clear, radiant skin. Pineapple is rich in nutrients and antioxidants. Eating pineapple improves digestion, reduces inflammation, and removes toxins from the body.

The presence of bromelain enzymes helps in exfoliate to sweep away dead skin cells. Bromelain makes the skin firm and flexible. Pineapple juice provides elasticity and beauty to the skin by the synthesis of collagen.

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