Healthy Eating Healthy Skin

Healthy eating, maintaining a healthy weight, and having great skin all go hand in hand. Everything builds off of your diet. If you are not eating right you will not have healthy skin, it just is not possible. Okay if you are a teenager you might be able to pull it off, but those unhealthy eating habits you develop as a teen will creep up on you in your mid-twenties to thirties.

Fortunately it is never too late to change your diet and shave 10 years worth of damage off of your skin. The first thing I want to talk about is your water intake. If you are like most people you do not drink nearly enough pure water. Let me just throw some quick numbers at you:

Muscle is about 75% water.

Blood is about 95% water.

Bone is about 45% water

Add it all together and over half of the human body is comprised of water! It is an essential element for every nook and cranny of our bodies. So why do we deprive ourselves of this crucial element? If you do nothing else but up your water intake you will have more energy on a daily basis, your skin will take on a healthy glow, your thinking and other cognitive skills will improve, your internal organs will function at a much more efficient rate, and you will increase your life expectancy.

Now with all of those benefits don’t you think you should just go ahead and drink a couple more glasses of water per day?

The next thing I want to talk about is processed foods, microwave meals, and fast foods. This is the trifecta of doom for anyone trying to improve the quality of their skin. Believe me I understand that with a crazy hectic schedule it can be hard to actually make a healthy meal. What I would suggest is that you set a goal for yourself to make a good home cooked meal at least 3 times per week. It does not have to be anything to complicated – Grilled or baked chicken with a nice spinach salad is easy to make, does not require a lot of effort or time and is loaded with nutrients that our skin craves. In fact doing nothing but drinking more water and upping your intake of spinach will have a tremendous impact upon the quality of your skin.

Protein and fish - Your diet is not complete and you will never have the beautiful skin you crave if you do not take in enough protein or eat enough fish. Protein is a major building block of our bodies, especially our muscles. Increasing your lean muscle mass may not contribute tremendously to your overall skin quality, but it will give you a long, lean and really sexy look that will cause jaws to drop when you walk by.

Fish is loaded with omega-6 which is an essential element (and one which most people are deficient in) for maintaining healthy skin. If you want to have beautiful skin try to incorporate a serving of fish into at least 3 of your meals every week. This will not only take care of your omega-6 requirement, but fish is also very low in bad fats and will give you plenty of good protein.

Following these tips alone and doing nothing else will get you the greatest skin of your lifetime.