Health is the new song that is in rendition currently. But, we may want to take a look and check whether the notes of this song are composed arbitrarily or with some degree of know-how.
Keeping this analogous statement aside, health as a concept has been subdivided into minor considerations of isolated body parts, i.e. skin, muscles, bones, hair, and the list goes on. However, today we will be picking up the topic of skin and venturing on a journey to look for foods that will keep it not only healthy but also glowing, just the way the radiant sun does. Ok! Enough of these metaphors.
Before we begin to enlist such foods, we need to engrave one thing in mind that there is no such thing as a ‘superfood’, that is the end of all healthy eating and that would negate the effects of unhealthy eating habits. Nutrition doesn’t seem to work that way.
Here are the foods that will allow health and glow to lodge into your skin.
- Avocados
Being native to the Americas and thereby known with the scientific name of Persea Americana, this fruit is the paradigmatic example of a superfood owing to its health benefits.
- Provides Moisture
Unlike other fruits avocados are replete with healthy fats, namely monounsaturated healthy fatty acids that provide moisture to your skin.
- Protection against skin damage.
Vitamin C and Vitamin E that are found in Avocados serve as a membrane for the protection against the harmful UV rays and oxidative factors of the sun and other environmental conditions.
- Goodbye to dry skin
One of the components of the B complex vitamins is biotin, which is found in avocados in abundance. It helps in preventing dry skin.
- Carrots
This orange root vegetable, the roots of which goes back to around 900 AD, was first grown in Afghanistan.
- Flushing out of harmful toxins
Carrots are a major source of antioxidants that humans require. The abundance of Vitamin A helps in ensuring that no free radicals in the body persist.
This quality of flushing out toxins frees the system from oxidative molecules that in turn, results in the preparation of harboring youthful skin.
- Eliminating the menace of UV rays
A diet rich in carotene enables the skin to overcome the harmful UV rays of the sun and helps in improving the overall skin appearance. Adding a glass of carrot juice to your diet can very well supply you with beta carotene.
- Green tea
Made from the leaves and buds of Camellia Sinensis, green tea as compared to regular black tea doesn’t undergo the same withering and oxidation process, which allows it to keep its nutritional values intact.
- Reduces acne and oil from your skin
Owing to its antimicrobial, anti-inflammatory, and antioxidant properties, green tea can profusely treat acne and oily skin.
Acnes are caused by excessive sebum clogging pores which in turn, lead to the yielding of bacteria. EGCG found in green tea, mitigates the total sebum release in the skin thereby reducing acne.
- Anti-aging
Partaking in green tea can help your skin better overcome the aging effect. This is suggested by a 2005 study where 80 women were routinely provided with topical and oral green tea and the results were found to be positive towards its effect in improving skin elasticity and thereby delaying the effects of aging.
- Red or yellow bell peppers
Bell peppers are also known as capsicum. This vegetable comes in various color variants like green, purple, yellow, red, and white. The ones that are pertinent to the issue are red and yellow bell peppers. What makes them unique from the ubiquitous green ones is that they remain on the vine for the longest period of time as compared to the latter and are therefore more nutritious.
- Keeping the skin firm and strong
Vitamin C found in red and yellow bell peppers is essential in the creation of protein collagen which prevents your skin from getting flimsy.
Various studies done, have shown that the women who meet their daily requirements of vitamin C, which bell peppers are of great source, are better apt to militate against dry and wrinkled skin.
- Antioxidant for skin
The beta carotene found in red bell peppers is 11 percent more than found in other variants. This acts as an effective antioxidant for your skin thereby enhancing its health.
- Dark chocolates
Made from the seeds of the cocoa plant, what makes dark chocolate different from sugary chocolates, you find on the shelves of your supermarket is that their chief components involve cocoa solids and cocoa butter with little to no sugar and milk. One thing to keep in mind is that always opt for those dark chocolates that have a cocoa percentage of more than 70 or 80.
Their key constituent, cocoa, is a good source of antioxidants. Different foods have different ORAC or Oxygen Radical Absorbance Capacity. In simple terms it means the ability of any food, with regards to the virtue of antioxidants present in them, to rout the free radicals.
In this respect, raw cocoa beans are far superior to any food item.
Conclusion
All of the above-enumerated food items should be supplemented by a balanced diet. Eating one item each day may not give you the desired results. Therefore, it is suggested to involve some of these items in appropriate quantities into your diet as per your own convenience and eating patterns.
Health is demanded by the exigency of well-being and in some sense, both terms are synonymous with each other. The seemingly compelling world of social media has played a huge role in elevating its importance from a mere personal practice to a tool of influence. Regardless, the benefits of healthy living are self-evident and one doesn’t have to indulge himself/herself/themselves in this utilitarian concept just because it is demanded by some social media trend.
