subject: The Basics Of Anti Aging - Watching What You Eat [print this page] The search for the best anti aging treatmen has been around for a while now. There have even been quests aimed at finding the fountain of youth which is supposed to eradicate aging forever. But despite the fact that we have failed to find any fountains, we have still strived to look for ways to avoid aging.
The skin is the first one to show signs if there is something wrong with our health. Incidentally, it is also the first one to show aging symptoms through signs like wrinkles and fine lines and skin spots.
We have actually made tremendous headway in the search to find the best way to deal with father time and have developed so many different methods to do so, most of which use skin application products in the form of creams, gels, serums, and many more, that you can easily get with a trip to the drug store or beauty store
As such, we seem to be making a big mistake in our quest to defeat aging because it should not involve only skin creams, gels and serums as there are other ways to do so. The most effective of which is one that tackles aging even before it starts showing it's ugly head. You could start the war effort in the kitchen!
Yes, you have read it correctly. Our kitchens will also help us solve our skin problems, through sound diet and good, healthy food!
Let's put it this way: there are only three kinds of food when it comes to our health--- the good, the bad, and the neutral. Simply put, if you eat a lot of good foods, then you will probably live a healthier life; but if you prefer eating the bad stuff, then don't expect the same result.
The same is true for the skin. Eating a lot of skin-healthy food will help you fend off skin wrinkles and any other aging-related skin problems.
Remember the terms Go, Grow, and Glow? Well, be thankful that your teachers taught you that because it will help you in knowing which foods are beneficial for the skin. Vitamins and minerals are always important and, besides being great for our internal health, is also great for our external--- the skin.
Vitamins A, C, D, and E are crucial and plays a lot of role in slowing and reversing the aging process. They are powerful antioxidants that help the human body eliminate free radicals which are substances that makes the body self-destruct faster and age. We all know where we could get these all-important vitamins and mineral because we have been taught it from the moment we could understand words.
Fruits and vegetables are the basic and most reliable sources of vitamins and minerals that promote aging-preventing body processes. Apples, carrots, oranges are some of the best and are readily available. Avocado alone is said to contain 20 vitamins that are invaluable to our overall health.
Besides eating the right food, staying away from the wrong kind is also a great strategy. Avoiding food rich in trans fatty acids, sugars and starches will go a long way because eating lots of them will promote inflammatory body responses that can set us back in our anti-aging quest. These types of food speed up the aging process.
Science has uncovered the truth that we are indeed what we eat which is a great thing to know as far as the quest to stop the aging process is concerned. We buy anti aging products by the boxes and spend so much paying doctors to do something about the fine lines and the wrinkles and the age spots but it turns out all we need to do is go out to the grocery and just load up on fruits and vegetables. A healthy diet, it turns out, is your first line of defense against aging.
