Get that summer glow by making these changes in your diet
Summer is here, brighter than ever! Time to get ready to fill up the wardrobe with striking colorful dresses. However, to look your best in summer, you also need to take special care of your body and health, and especially of your skin. Skin is one of our organs and the largest one. Skin’s condition reflects our outer as well as inner health as well. So, the significance of a good skin care routine must not be overlooked.
With all the splendor that summer brings, also come harshness of heat, hot winds and sun rays. Collectively, all these factors damage our skin, depriving it of the glow that we admire. With the beginning of the summer, even my first concern is to keep my skin intact from dryness and tan that hot Sun gives us.
Despite the intensity of the hot weather, it is not impossible to keep your skin healthy and glowing. In addition to skin remedies, there is a number of glowing skin diet plans that contribute to skin freshness and hydration, keeping the skin bright even in severity of summers. Below are listed some of the diet options that can be proved fruitful.
Water; keep your skin hydrated
As we all know, drinking more water is the best remedy for all health benefits. It keeps the skin hydrates, also helps to remove waste and toxins from the body. Adding coconut water, buttermilk, green tea, lemon juice, garlic, cucumber, or mint leaves lower the body heat and prevents the skin from getting dry. Increased water intake detoxifies the skin leaving it soft and glowing.
Add avocados to your diet
Avocados have detoxifying effects as they have abundance in antioxidants like beta carotene and lutein. Adding avocados to salads blended with orange juice, stirred up with coriander, cumin and Alfredo sauce is a both tasty and has multiple healthy benefits including skin glow.
Tomatoes prevents sun burn
Keeping tomatoes included in your diet works wonder for the skin. Tomatoes contain large amounts of lycopene, which prevents sun damage and aging as well. However, to get the lycopene to work, tomatoes need some cooking. Treating yourself with salsa furnished with roasted tomatoes, or a soup with baked tomatoes is a delicious taste to add to your diet for the sake of skin.
Kiwi, a natural moisturizer
Kiwi provides skin with great amounts of a natural moisturizer, vitamin E. Adding Kiwi to your diet plan also helps removing the toxins. Sliced kiwi in salads or juiced kiwi with fruits are pleasant can make pleasant additions to your diet for healthier skin.
Papaya, remedy for burnt skin
Tropical fruit, papaya, is rich in enzymes that help cleanse the skin and dissolve fats preventing them from clogging the skin pores. Get a ripened papaya, get it juiced and enjoy a freshening drink with all the skin-health benefits and more.
Eat an egg daily
Most people tend to leave the yolk while eating an egg not knowing the health benefits it has including the skin improving effects. Yolk contains biotin, a vitamin also referred to as “beauty vitamin”. In addition to strengthen hair and nails, egg’s yolk helps keeping the skin rash and dryness free.
A cup of green tea
Green tea provides us with antioxidants called catechins that is not only an anticancer, but also prevents sun damage. It simply neutralizes the effects of sun-burn, restoring the natural texture and color of the skin.
Blue-berries, rich source of antioxidants
In addition to improving our immune system, blue berries are also found to have skin improving effects. This fine fruit is a great source of antioxidants that help to reduce skin-aging free radicals. Anthocyanins, giving the berries blue color, are high in concentration and help strengthen the collagen fibers. Adding blue berries to your diet will help improve immunity to other illnesses as well as to the skin damaging conditions.
Skin-friendly coconuts
Coconut’s water that you get after cracking it open is a drink of its own kind. Refreshing as it is, it’s also rich in potassium that relaxes the muscle and keeps your skin younger, softer and brighter.
Salmon
Besides being so tasty, salmon also has its health benefits, especially for the skin. Salmon has found to contain di-methyl-amino-ethanol (DMAE). The compound strengthens the cell membranes and working in combination with vitamin B, it helps the skin to look firm, perfectly toned and glowing.
Do experiment adding these skin care tips to your routine and see wonders for your skin in summers. Flaunt your dresses, stay young and keep glowing!
