Can Your Diet Clear Up Your Skin?
by Gwen Lewis
The Importance of Produce
It may sound like old news, but it's common advice for a reason. It's so important to eat a diet heavy in fruits and vegetables. The antioxidants in fresh produce neutralize dangerous free radicals that contribute to a host of skin issues--premature aging, wrinkles, and discoloration.
Take for example, tomatoes. Tomatoes (actually a fruit) are chock full of lycopene, a bright carotenoid pigment found in red produce. Lycopene is important because it helps neutralize and even reverse sun damage. When tomatoes are cooked, lycopene is released in greater quantities.
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3/6/2015 8:00:00 AM
Written by Gwen Lewis
Gwen Lewis is a writer and makeup artist based in Southern California.
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I mostly agree. Greek yogurt is excellent for your skin and limit fruit due to the high sugar content. Get most of you antioxidants via veggies.
Posted by Mark
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Gwen, what exactly are your nutrition credentials? I see you're a makeup artist. Do you have any real training and education in nutrition?
Advocating "getting rid of butter" is absurd. Saturated fat is healthy and good for the body. So is grass fed red meat (no need to limit it to once a week...where do you get this stuff?!).
Learn the facts about what really constitutes a "healthy" diet before spouting off old myths that have no scientific backing whatsoever (for your education, I suggest you google "Ansel Keys").
The myth that saturated fat (like butter and red meat) is "bad" has no factual scientific basis whatsoever.
Wendy Meyers
RN, Clinical Nurse Nutritionist
Men Only Weight Loss/ Just For Women Weight Loss
Houston, Texas
Posted by Wendy
Advocating "getting rid of butter" is absurd. Saturated fat is healthy and good for the body. So is grass fed red meat (no need to limit it to once a week...where do you get this stuff?!).
Learn the facts about what really constitutes a "healthy" diet before spouting off old myths that have no scientific backing whatsoever (for your education, I suggest you google "Ansel Keys").
The myth that saturated fat (like butter and red meat) is "bad" has no factual scientific basis whatsoever.
Wendy Meyers
RN, Clinical Nurse Nutritionist
Men Only Weight Loss/ Just For Women Weight Loss
Houston, Texas
http://www.wellness.com/blog/13275848/can-your-diet-clear-up-your-skin/gwen-lewis/page-2
You're saying to drink 8 glasses of water per day or 1/ hour and the very next article is warning of the life-threatening danger of doing just that! Please explain.
Posted by John Hannigan
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