How Diet Affects Your Skin

March 5, 2020

How Does Your Overall Diet

affect your skin?

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 3 ways to alter your diet to heal you achieve healthier skin:

1. Eat "clean" with fish, fruit, & veggies.

Eating more fish, leafy greens, and fruit can play a major role in the health of your 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.

Aging is a natural process - but instead of addressing negative symptoms as they appear, wouldn’t you rather maintain your standard of health as you get older? If you start taking care of your body now, it will age with grace and you will lose less function over time.

2. 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 zucchini pasta instead of traditional pasta to lower your carb intake.

3. 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. You diet can also affect many other parts of your body as well – read our blog on the immune system and learn how the dietary choices you make can help or harm your body’s immune function.

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