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8 Essential Foods for Beautiful Skin

Discover how avocados, salmon, eggs and other foods and nutrients help enhance your complexion. Plus, see our picks for healthy recipes to try.

Compiled by Amy Zerello from readersdigest.com
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Avocados are not just for eating! A good source of biotin, avocados help to prevent dry skin and brittle hair and nails. When applied topically, they can hydrate parched skin.

A tip from 1,801 Home Remedies:
Create a moisturizing mask. Pit the fruit, puree the pulp, and pat it on your face. The oil acts as an emollient. It also contains beneficial vitamin E.

3 Recipes to Try:
Chilled Leek and Avocado Soup
Avocado-Turkey Wraps
Avocado 'Sushi' Salad

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Sip your way to healthy skin. Green tea's high on the list of skin-friendly beverages thanks to its impressive storehouse of polyphenols. Aim for four cups throughout your day.

See 3 more green tea benefits.

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Reach for tomatoes. A German study found that lycopene-rich tomato paste helped participants prevent sunburn when they combined it with olive oil, daily for ten weeks. Besides being a great source of the antioxidant lycopene, tomatoes are considered a high-carotenoid fruit. These nutrients may help slow down cellular damage from free radicals.

See the 10 best antioxidant fruit sources and the 10 best antioxidant veggie sources.

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Slow down aging with salmon. Salmon contains astaxanthin, a carotenoid that improves skin elasticity, so you'll have fewer fine lines.

3 Recipes to Try
Salmon with Tarragon Mayo
Salmon Cakes with Creamy Tomato Sauce
Roasted Salmon with Lemon-Parsley Dressing

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Crack open some eggs. Protein helps repair cells that have suffered free radical damage. Eggs, a complete source of protein, also contain biotin, an essential vitamin that protects against dry skin.

Learn more about what makes eggs the gold standard when it comes to protein.

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Put pomegranate on your list. When applied topically, this antioxidant-rich fruit may help skin create more collagen, while speeding healing.

See 5 more ingredients that combat collagen break down.

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Try walnuts. Looking to add Omega-3 fatty acids to your diet but not a fan of fish? Walnuts are a rich source of Omega-3s, which help put shine in your hair and aid in making skin smoother and younger looking.

See 4 more nonfish sources of omega-3 fatty acids.

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Build better skin with beans. Another protein source, legumes help repair cells that have suffered free radical damage. During digestion, protein breaks down into amino acids, the building blocks of cells. Amino acids help to speed the repair and regeneration of skin cells and collagen.

Food Cures offers detailed nutrition prescriptions for more than 57 common health problems.

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Your Comments

  • http://www.sjch.us/for-patients-and-visitors/accepted-insurance- Morgan Humble

    Everybody wants beautiful skin, right? Well, achieving it by means of natural elements is easy. Who wouldn’t want to eat those! They are just delectable and delicious, and are perfect for desserts. Surely, those would be enjoyable to eat. Yummy!

  • http://www.sjch.us/for-patients-and-visitors/accepted-insurance- Morgan Humble

    Everybody wants beautiful skin, right? Well, achieving it by means of natural elements is easy. Who wouldn’t want to eat those! They are just delectable and delicious, and are perfect for desserts. Surely, those would be enjoyable to eat. Yummy!

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  • http://www.lipoguide.com/ Lipo

    Wow.. Excellent post. I want to thank you for sharing this awesome Information about Essential Foods for Beautiful Skin, and I really appreciate your information. Its really make me crazy about it.  Keep it up. 

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    Eating
    the right kind of food doesn’t just keep our body healthy.  They also  make our skin beautiful. 
    Although, sometimes, it’s alright to deviate yourself in eating
    healthy foods but we should limit our intake of unhealthy foods.  It is also best to use
    natural or mineral skincare products.  Minerals
    are good for the skin.
     

  • http://beautyoffers.net Sue

    I love avocados. It seems a great shame to put them on your face!

  • http://www.manukasea.com.au/manuka-honey Manuka Honey

    Great list, its better to know about the natural resources for skin care.

  • http://www.recipeswithtwist.com Recipes with Twist

    Tomatoes are also good for our skin.It prevent our skin from getting wrinkles that we get as gift from old age.

  • Anonymous

    This one is truly looking one of the most fabulous post to know about the best of foods for the glowing skin. And the regarding information is extremely looking just most healthy. And it’s really looking just most useful and essential information about it. Thanks for sharing.
     

  • rahel

    that is very good 8 essential from avocado, i want give a skin care tips.
    avocado’s also good to solve the dry skin, with make avocado as a mask :
    1. Split the avocado into two 
    2. Shaved part of flash fruit
    3. Then blend the avocado until it smooth.
    spread to your skin face, and then wait 3-5 minutes until it
    dry. after that clean you face with warm water then rub with ice crub.
    for the maximal results, better you do every morning and evening before sleep
    let’s try and good luck

  • http://www.adamscheinermd.com/non-surgical/microlaserpeel-chemical-peels-tampa.cfm Katie Hallison

    The bottom line is a good diet. Not only do these food benefit your skin, the nutrients you receive from them would also help boost the overall health of your body. Of course, exercise is also a requirement to achieve both beautiful and healthy skin, which can last for a long time.

  • Anonymous

    I love salmon. it’s my family favorite food.

  • http://www.southflderm.com/laser-treatments-delray-beach-fl/hair-removal.html Lauri Hersh

    Indeed! The nutrition from these food items are more or less the building blocks to a healthy and beautiful body. You need to absorb the nutrients of these items so you would have the energy to take on exercises that would improve your figure.

  • http://www.thekestclinic.com/meet-dr-kest-dermatologist-beverly-hills Tobi Fistcher

    Hm-mm, it could be a wise move to consider adding these food as part of your diet. At the same time, you should take a close look at the other things you eat and see if it would benefit your skin and body. What’s inside a meal can affect the system of our body, for better or for worse, and it is vital to aim for something that benefits us inside out.

  • http://www.thekestclinic.com/meet-dr-kest-dermatologist-beverly-hills Tobi Fistcher

    Hm-mm, it could be a wise move to consider adding these food as part of your diet. At the same time, you should take a close look at the other things you eat and see if it would benefit your skin and body. What’s inside a meal can affect the system of our body, for better or for worse, and it is vital to aim for something that benefits us inside out.

  • Jen692

    This post is amazing! everybody really does want clear skin

  • Jen692

    This post is amazing! everybody really does want clear skin

  • Jen692

    This post is amazing! everybody really does want clear skin

  • Jen692

    This post is amazing! everybody really does want clear skin

  • Jen692

    This post is amazing! everybody really does want clear skin

  • Jen692

    This post is amazing! everybody really does want clear skin

  • Jen692

    This post is amazing! everybody really does want clear skin

  • Jen692

    This post is amazing! everybody really does want clear skin

  • Jen692

    This post is amazing! everybody really does want clear skin

  • Collinathomas

    bodys are strange! all i know is that maybe i just look in the mirror to much wondering why im not fat!… and i just .. cant … stop wondering why im the beast! Gotta keep a good work out in. i love eating healthy! honestly feels  and tastes good. but nothing better then a rewarding chocolate in my bed….wishin i could share it with someone! makes me feel so naughty! being so sexy!:)
    -Collin

  • http://www.careNfashion.com/ Adil

    very awesome and much needed post, because today many people specially women and girls in large numbers are spending great money on skin products, but as most products are unnatural so they do not give optimum results. 

    In this situation there is dire need that everyone should adopt these foods in their daily routine. 

  • http://www.intilight.com/ Sabrina Moore

    Good point, Morgan! :) For sure,
    one’s quest to have beautiful skin will be both fun and rewarding this way.
    Eating healthy and delicious foods can make you look good outside and healthy
    inside. That’s shooting two birds with one stone!

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100002947347435 Suzanna Duffy

    I FIRST STARTING EATING SALMON ,AFTER I READ THE WRINKLE CURE BOOK.THAT WAS 12 YEARS AGO,IT TRULY HAS BEEN A BLESSING FOR MY SKIN,HEALTH,AND OVERALL AGING…………………………IT IS BETTER THAN ANY FACE CREAM,FILLERS ETC.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100002947347435 Suzanna Duffy

    avocado mask
    avocado pulp
    charcoal clay
    kelp
    lemon
    alkaline water
    enjoy………………………………