What Are the Best Foods for Glowing Skin?
Summer’s produce bounty makes it easy to keep your skin healthy from the inside out. “The expression ‘We are what we eat’ is especially true for skin. Eating mostly fatty, greasy foods might cause acne break outs while foods high in water content – like fruits and vegetables – help keep skin moist and soft,” says Melissa Keeney, RDN, clinical nutrition manager at St. Vincent’s Medical Center. But which foods are the best for your skin?
These are the 6 best foods for your skin. One food is not going to radically alter your skin, so Keeney suggests following a healthy diet with fresh, low-fat foods as often as possible. “Our skin reflects what’s happening inside our bodies based, in part, on what we eat, and what we expose it to externally, such as smoking and the sun’s dangerous ultraviolent (UV) rays,” she explains. The best foods for healthy skin are:
Berries. Full of fiber, nutrients and antioxidants called polyphenols and anthocyanins that can neutralize and reduce damage to cells, berries are all are great options. Try baking blueberries, blackberries, raspberries and strawberries into a summer crisp or freezing them with chocolate and Greek yogurt into a bark.
Excerpted from Hartford Healthcare
