Monday, October 22, 2007
6 Steps To Beautiful Skin
Here’s a reminder (for myself) to maintain a healthy skin.
I’ve been suffering from pimply, blotchy face all my life, especially when it comes to my period days; trust me when I say, it’s traumatising. OK, maybe that’s an overstatement, because you kinda learn to live with it as time goes, besides it’s not all too serious till I have to seek medical help.
But undeniably, it’ll be really nice to not have to worry about my face and spend tons of money in buying lotions and creams and ointments just to try-and-error on my skin (which I think it’s really taxing to the face!)
So I figured what slaps on your face is not as important as what goes into your mouth down the tummy.
1. Yup. Eating right is almost the only way to go with gorgeous skin, sadly. What you really need is a balance diet but cash in on foods that offer benefits of anti-aging like fruits (berries), greens (beans), nuts (hazelnuts and walnuts), dried fruits (non-sweetened. Sugar is BADDD), spices (this shouldn’t be too difficult nor bad as we Asians are used to herbs and spices in our food and herbal drinks), and cereals (not necessary cornflakes every morning. You can add/substitute your white rice which offers no nutrition anyway with unpolished brown rice. Alternately, you may add barley, beans, sesame etc into your white rice too)
2. Protection from the sun! I hate to mention this but there’s no other way than to slap on the sunscreen and avoid spending time in the sun too much. Harmful rays of the sun damage your skin and make it rough and wrinkly way before time.
3. Do not smoke - so bad for your skin PLUS it damages your lungs! (If you don’t smoke, you only have 5 tips to keep!)
4. Take antioxidants (berries, beans, nuts) to fight the free radicals in your body - the reason that causes aging. Certain vitamins and minerals like Omega-3 are important to maintain healthy and supple skin.
I’m taking cod liver oil now, and I actually do see improvement on my face - breakouts are under control (esp during pre-period days), pimples dry out fast without growing into some full-grown monstrous uh, pimple, and no patches of red skins, till now (it has been half a month since I started on cod liver oil, 2 capsules per day).
*Do check with your gynae about consuming fish oil if you are pregnant.
5. And my most dreadful tip - EXERCISE. Apparently the best type of exercise is about 30 minutes of light aerobics, walking, or swimming. If done daily, it’ll greatly improve your energy level and help your body feel younger.
Actually, staying in my current apartment which is 3 floors up does help! Seriously! My thighs and buttocks are ACTUALLY firmer and toner. So imagine you actually keep to an exercise routine, how great you’ll look!
6. Finally, get enough and quality sleep every night. This could be a very difficult tip to keep for many of us as our lives are just so busy! Sleep? What sleep? But unfortunately, if you want great skin, then you gotta reassess your schedules and make quality sleep your top priority.
Credit: The above steps/tips are collected from various websites through the net. You may google and map out tips that are relevant to your own lifestyle instead.
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