Beautiful Skin Diet
The Secret to Beautiful Skin
By Laura Carpenter
What's the key to a clear complexion?
Amazingly, the secret lies in your cupboard. We sifted through the hype to bring you the beautiful skin secrets of three experts. They'll tell you why a cover girl's complexion is only a bowl of blueberries away.
ARE YOU READY?
Change Your Diet
It wasn't until recently that skin care gurus switched from prescribing creams to focusing on food.
"Beautiful skin on the outside begins with good health on the inside," explains Nicholas Perricone, M.D., author of The Wrinkle Cure (Warner, 2005) and Dr. Perricone's 7 Secrets to Beauty, Health, and Longevity (Ballantine, 2006). "You'll never look your absolute best unless you eat right." After …show more content…
Check out his book for skin-savvy recipes like an egg-white omelet with sautéed squash, eggplant, spinach, and red pepper.
Complexion Killers
If you want to put your best face forward, watch out for these five foods:
Sugar
Our experts agree that sugar is exceptionally damaging to skin and accelerates the aging process, inside and out. Perricone's solution is simple: "Eat less sugar," he says. Remember that there's a difference between the natural sugar in fruit and the added sugar in packaged goods. Look out for the words fructose, sucrose, corn syrup, fruit juice, mannitol, and molasses on ingredient labels all are forms of added sugar.
Raisins
This lunch box favorite causes sudden and wide swings in sugar loads in the body, which can inflame and damage the skin, Asarch warns. If you can't resist raisins, pair them with protein or heart-healthy fat to prevent a blood sugar spike. Try mixing in a handful of walnuts or almonds for a high-energy, skin-savvy trail mix.
Bacon
This breakfast favorite is high in saturated fat, which "increases the incidence of skin aging and wrinkling," explains
By Laura Carpenter
What's the key to a clear complexion?
Amazingly, the secret lies in your cupboard. We sifted through the hype to bring you the beautiful skin secrets of three experts. They'll tell you why a cover girl's complexion is only a bowl of blueberries away.
ARE YOU READY?
Change Your Diet
It wasn't until recently that skin care gurus switched from prescribing creams to focusing on food.
"Beautiful skin on the outside begins with good health on the inside," explains Nicholas Perricone, M.D., author of The Wrinkle Cure (Warner, 2005) and Dr. Perricone's 7 Secrets to Beauty, Health, and Longevity (Ballantine, 2006). "You'll never look your absolute best unless you eat right." After …show more content…
Check out his book for skin-savvy recipes like an egg-white omelet with sautéed squash, eggplant, spinach, and red pepper.
Complexion Killers
If you want to put your best face forward, watch out for these five foods:
Sugar
Our experts agree that sugar is exceptionally damaging to skin and accelerates the aging process, inside and out. Perricone's solution is simple: "Eat less sugar," he says. Remember that there's a difference between the natural sugar in fruit and the added sugar in packaged goods. Look out for the words fructose, sucrose, corn syrup, fruit juice, mannitol, and molasses on ingredient labels all are forms of added sugar.
Raisins
This lunch box favorite causes sudden and wide swings in sugar loads in the body, which can inflame and damage the skin, Asarch warns. If you can't resist raisins, pair them with protein or heart-healthy fat to prevent a blood sugar spike. Try mixing in a handful of walnuts or almonds for a high-energy, skin-savvy trail mix.
Bacon
This breakfast favorite is high in saturated fat, which "increases the incidence of skin aging and wrinkling," explains