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Food for your skin

Your eyes might be the window to your soul but your skin is the open door to your age. A bright, supple skin is a communication to the world that here is a healthy person.

There is also evidence your diet directly affects the health and appearance of your skin. Even small increases in fruit and vegetable consumption lead to visible improvements in skin colour and this applies across all ethnicities.

The effect is probably due to carotenoids and other pigments found in fruit and vegetables causing a heightened “golden” hue to the skin. Research has even shown that people who eat a lot of foods high in carotenoids are consistently rated as more attractive than people with fewer carotenoids in their diet. To keep your skin as healthy and glowing as it can be, here are few specific skin-friendly foods to focus on.

Strawberries

Berries of all sorts are very healthy foods. The key benefit of berries is their antioxidant content; indeed, strawberries are such powerful antioxidants that NASA looked at using strawberry extract to protect its astronauts against the effects of radiation once beyond the protective shell of the Earth’s atmosphere.

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