Diet for the skin
The condition of the skin largely depends on what a person uses on a daily basis. The skin is part of the body's excretory system, and everything that we consume passes through them, so no cosmetic procedure or product can replace the correct approach to nutrition.
A facial diet excludes foods made with trans fats that are high in sugar and salt. Avoid frequent consumption of fried foods, chips, "fast" food, canned food and convenience foods. Smoking, drinking alcohol, carbonated sweet drinks, coffee negatively affects the appearance of the skin.
Mandatory list of trace elements
A properly formulated diet for the skin necessarily includes carbohydrates, proteins, and fats.
Without carbohydrates, a person lacks energy. Useful can be called carbohydrates found in fruits, vegetables, wholemeal flour, unprocessed oatmeal, legumes, dairy products, brown rice and basmati rice, buckwheat, nuts.
It is difficult to imagine the process of skin cell renewal without proteins. Fish, lean red meat, chicken, eggs, seafood, dairy products, nuts, legumes must be included in the diet for the skin of the face and body.
Fats make the skin more elastic, so all low-fat diets are not recommended for extended periods. Fatty fish, olives, nuts, avocados, olive and flaxseed oil should be present in the daily diet: the fats they contain are extremely healthy.
One cannot but take into account the list of vitamins useful for the skin. Any diet for the skin involves the inclusion of foods containing these vitamins:
- A - is responsible for skin restoration, stimulates collagen production, increases skin immunity.
- B5 - helps the skin to recover.
- C - connective tissue is not renewed without it.
- E is one of the most important vitamins for the skin. It helps to delay the appearance of age-related pigmentation, promotes skin healing.
- Biotin - The inclusion of this trace mineral in the skin's diet helps prevent dermatitis.
- Magnesium - increases the permeability of skin cells.
- Aluminum - without it, epithelial cells cannot form.
- Iron - Provides adequate hydration.
- Copper - found in collagen, affects the color of the skin.
- Zinc - promotes regeneration, the growth of new cells.
As with any diet, water plays an important role in the diet for the skin of the face. Dehydrated skin ages early, looks gray, flabby and tired, flakes and becomes inflamed. For this reason, during a diet for the skin, you need to drink at least a liter of clean water per day (tea, coffee and other drinks, first courses are not taken into account). As a preventive measure during a diet for the skin, you can additionally use special moisturizing cosmetics.
Sample diet menu for facial skin
Taking into account information about substances beneficial to the skin, here is an approximate diet menu for the skin of the face, which can ensure normal skin condition and a healthy appearance.
First day
- Breakfast: tea with milk, ham, soft-boiled eggs, cereal bread.
- Lunch: lean borscht, turkey stew with potatoes, carrot salad with lemon juice.
- Dinner: rice with boiled chicken breast, tomato juice.
Second day
- Breakfast: tomatoes, bread and cottage cheese. Orange juice.
- Lunch: buckwheat porridge, chicken broth, boiled egg, tangerines.
- Dinner: fish, baked or boiled, vegetable salad, pomegranate juice.
The third day of the skin diet:
- Breakfast: apples and scrambled eggs with tomatoes, green tea with a slice of lemon.
- Lunch: vegetable soup, rice and seafood, tomato juice.
- Dinner: cheese, bread, ham, fruit salad.
Fourth day
- Breakfast: bread, cheese, muesli with honey, nuts, coffee.
- Lunch: boiled veal and vegetables, pumpkin puree soup.
- Dinner: cod stewed with vegetables, grapefruit juice.
The fifth day of the skin diet
- Breakfast: porridge with milk, bread, ham, orange juice.
- Lunch: mashed potatoes, cabbage soup, minced chicken cutlets, tangerines.
- Dinner: vegetable stew, green tea.
On weekends, you can repeat the menu for one of the five days of the skin diet.
Diet to cleanse the skin
In the event that the recommendations for a healthy diet have not been followed, and there are already skin problems, a skin cleansing diet can help, which can alleviate the condition even with psoriasis.
During a diet for the skin, you cannot consume products made from white flour, smoked, fried, spicy, sugar in any form, carbonated sweet drinks, coffee, alcohol, tomato juice. Apples, bananas and melons are eaten separately from other foods.
The emphasis in this diet is on foods containing vitamin B: rye flour bread, egg yolk, barley, oats, chicken, almonds, green vegetables, fruits, honey, lamb, beets, fish, turnips, milk, sour milk, yogurt, bran, whole wheat cereals, water-cooked buckwheat.
Before starting a diet to cleanse the skin, the body must be prepared. For three days, you need to eat only one of the three foods (to choose from): citruses, grapes or apples. It is also recommended to do regular cleansing enemas.
After such cleansing, during a diet for the skin, you need to drink 1 teaspoon of olive oil daily, two or three times a day, which has a mild laxative effect.
In addition, regular use of liquid is encouraged - at least eight glasses a day, lemon juice with honey, fresh orange, pineapple, pear, grape, beet, parsley, carrot, celery, dried fruit compotes, herbal teas.
This regimen will help remove toxins and improve skin health.
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