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Eating Your Way To Beautiful Black Skin
How do you eat your way to beautiful black skin? Whoever it was that once said “you are what you eat” could never imagine the horror it would instill in black women everywhere. If this truly was the case then I am 90% champagne and chocolate, my best friend a calorie loaded combination of cream cheese and Pop Tarts and my next door neighbor is one gigantic blueberry muffin and cappuccino with extra sprinkles. In our collective attempts to fight off our favorite foods and maintain a semblance of sanity when clothes shopping, we trail to the gym religiously to crunch, lunge and zumba away the calories. The battle against what we put in and what we take out has always been a serious and time consuming pre-occupation for women, but now we are being bombarded by new information and research that the foods we eat not only have an effect on our weight, but also on how our skin looks and ages.
Nutrition For Beautiful Black Skin
Anti aging skin foods have long since been coveted in cultures around the world, with powerful antioxidant ingredients such as chili and green tea. These ingredients have attributed to the seemingly ageless skin of women in India and Japan. The average lifespan of Japanese women is around 5 years longer than that of its Western counterparts, with a diet based solely upon large quantities of fresh foods including root vegetables, raw fish and brown rice. Long before skin creams, serums and local beauty salons Japanese women understood the connection between the ingredients in their food and the effect it has on health, long life and beautiful skin.
It makes complete sense that natural black skin care and anti-aging products can do very little for someone unless the whole person is making a shift towards a healthier, non-toxic lifestyle. Recognizing the importance of following a cleansing and anti-inflammatory diet – fresh fruits, vegetables, green tea – not only will it allow your skin to age slowly and gracefully, it will also provide a smooth, soft and glowing complexion.
Having and maintaining beautiful black skin embodies the focused belief that a skin care regimen should treat your skin from the inside as well as the outside. You can protect your skin and prevent accelerated aging by supporting and protecting your body from toxic and harmful ingredients.
Great Skin Foods For Black Skin
Spinach
It is said that spinach makes your skin look an astounding 38 percent younger in a matter of weeks and is packed with a powerful antioxidant called Lutein, which boosts your skin’s elasticity and hydration levels.
Goji Berries
Categorized as one of the most nutritionally dense foods on the planet, Goji Berries have almost 500 percent more vitamin C per ounce than the jumble orange, which produces the collagen to keep your skin young. The berries also contain linoeic acid, an essential fatty acid which plumps up your skin naturally.
Beans
Beans contain a skin favorite ingredient named hylauronic acid which is responsible for keeping your skin plump and hydrated. This includes all types of beans including kidney, butter and navy beans.
Flaxseed Oil
Flaxseed oil whether taken by the spoonful or mixed as a salad dressing, is a major source of healthy Omega-3. Skin cells are surrounded by a fatty layer which keeps them healthy and plump, with high Omega-3 levels contributing to the disguise of fine lines and wrinkles.
Red Peppers
Antioxidants in bright red, yellow and orange foods have been proven in recent research to increase UV protection in your skin. The effect is thought to be so strong that eating six portions of red peppers a day can create a natural sun protection.
Ingredients and Skin Care
For years skin care companies have been held in high esteem for their latest skin beautifying ingredients, with everything from synthetic collagen to animal derived ingredients that were added to their products in order to deliver the promise of beautiful skin. The fact that these skin care ingredients could actually be doing more harm than good has met with a level of concern.
Because black skin has a high degree of melanin, the ingredients that you choose should be specifically formulated with you in mind. Because of the melanin, we feel that our black skin is not subject to dryness and cracking. This could be further from the truth.
It is widely argued that up to 60% of the products we use on our skin are absorbed and deposited into our circulatory system. If this is true, then how much of these ingredients have been absorbed into our bloodstream by the time we’re 60 years of age?
Free Radicals And The Damage They Cause Black Skin
Free radical offenders such as smoking, hormonal imbalance and a poor diet combined with food sensitivities, additives and prescription drugs overload your immune system and fuel inflammation.
In order for your black skin to be at its best, it is essential to maintain a high level of antioxidant rich foods in what you eat. It is these antioxidants that help to counteract the effects of oxidization on your skin and your body. The process of oxidation in the human body damages the cell membranes and related structures, which include essential skin lipids and cellular proteins. During this process oxygen is “˜metabolized’ creating “˜free radicals’ which steal electrons from other molecules and cause skin damage.
Your body can cope with a certain amount of free radicals and actually requires some to function effectively. However, an overload of free radicals have been linked to certain diseases, skin damage and premature aging.
Soft supple luxurious black skin is not always about what you put on it, but often about what you take into your body to nurture it. Nutrition and healthy eating habits not only contribute to the natural glow of your beautiful skin, they also give you the benefit of weight loss, improved memory and normal sleep patterns.
Let’s not get things twisted, a combination of great skin care and a healthy eating regimen working hand in hand, will take ten years off your face and ten pounds off your body.
Beautiful Black Skin, Spinach anyone?
