Skin Care: How to keep skin healthy?

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During our routine neglect many habits that after some time we spend bill, reflected in our overall health and physical appearance of our skin and hair. Tricks and tips for maintaining beautiful skin, but do not forget the importance of healthy skin. The main problem appears when we apply skin care to maintain healthy skin, and actually are influencing deterioration.

How to maintain healthy skin? 8 tips to avoid common mistakes

To care for our skin we must know the activities that are harmful to it, although we create them good and learn how to correct them.

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1. Sugar Skin

The products in which breaks down sugar in our stomach result in a process called glycation, and during it is the collagen that keeps skin smooth and firm damages. To prevent this process gets out of control, dermatologists recommend switching to carbohydrates low glycemic index, such as whole grains that have a very low natural content in sugars and body digests and processes slowly limiting loss collagens. If you want to take concrete and sugar with morning coffee, or take that dessert you tempting moments, you can try now with the natural sweetener Stevia, or sweeteners designed to keep skin smooth.

2. Stress and skin

If you like jogging, or burn fat on static bike to get rid of stress, you’ll feel better for a while after finishing the sweat, but there is nothing noticeable to your face and skin. If you incorporate besides the mere exercise yoga routine daily or weekly fitness, you are helping your skin to stay young and prevent the effects that stress has on the skin. There are certain yoga postures and movements such as the “sun salutation”, which improve blood flow. The extra oxygen which causes the yoga is responsible for that typical “yoga brightness” that talking sometimes. Research has shown that regular practice of yoga can reduce inflammation and the general level of tension produced by stress, which is what also makes skin aging. Another argument in favor of deep meditation. Tension caused by stress triggers the production of hormones that lead to the appearance of spots, rashes and aggravate ailments such as psoriasis by controlling our stress also keep skin calm.

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3. Coffee skin

To learn how to maintain healthy skin there are many foods to avoid, fatty, sweet, but the greatest enemy according to multiple studies is coffee. Since we recommend changing coffee for green tea and black contain protective compounds Teino – the – flavinas – that help prevent certain types of skin cancer and also prevent decreased levels of collagen in our skin, i.e. reduce wrinkles. Therefore, you can keep your energy dose without abusing coffee.

4. Lifting weights and skin

If you go to the gym, many times we think we run on a treadmill or doing stretching is enough. Following a bodybuilding lifting routine can get boring and people wanting to make muscled, but it is very convenient to reaffirm the muscles beneath our skin. In addition, the more we age, is more convenient, because our muscles are relaxed and making it more elastic and less firm, so the skin literally hanging ends thereof.

5. The intake of meat and skin

Today, although denied, meat and dairy products we consume have traces of the hormones used in cattle that produce them. Among other things, these hormones can cause acne. It is best to eat less of these products, especially meat or if you can, move on to meat certified organic production. You’ll notice that the state of your skin is much improved.

6. Alkaline foods and skin

There are a number of foods that are digested alkaline, such as parsley, almonds, cabbage, pears, lemons and apples compounds. These foods can greatly improve skin condition if we have very acidic and this usually happens when our diet is unbalanced. The acidity of the skin is known as the pH of the skin, poor and unbalanced diet eliminates alkaline minerals such as calcium, potassium and magnesium, which reinforce and harden the bones, teeth and hair and skin.

7. Abusing exercise 

Many times, we deal with do much exercise, and that’s fine, but do not rest the appropriate amount of hours, which is counterproductive. A common error is to exercise both at night did not get a good rest from exhaustion. Badly done! The excessive exercise causes muscle problems that persist for many days, continued weight loss over time, the emergence of low heart rates (feel your heart you for or beats slower suddenly), interruptions in the menstrual cycle or loss of appetite. You have to plan both the exercise performed and the corresponding rest. If enough for the body to recover is not rest, the muscles will eventually be continually inflamed, and what begins with a nuisance eventually to lead to a wound severe muscle or chronic.

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8. The fat and skin

If suddenly unbalance our diet, in the end also suffers our skin, nails and our hair. If we cut radically with calories, we also deprive ourselves of a number of certain nutrients that are responsible for a division and produce correct and healthy cell regeneration in general, to maintain the tone and texture of the skin. The skin also needs certain fatty acids which the body cannot produce himself to maintain hydration levels. A lack of calories diet absolutely ultimately resulting is a dry skin, brittle nails and hair loss, sometimes severe.

There are nutrients that are the key to knowing how to maintain healthy skin, i.e. maintain a smooth, firm, healthy, and youthful looking skin. Including vitamins A, C and E.

A deficit of vitamin A can cause acne, dry skin and hair and make brittle nails. A deficit of this vitamin is arranged with something as simple as eating carrots about 5 throughout the day. Lack of vitamin C seriously affect the synthesis of collagens (the glue that binds our ligaments, bones, veins and skin) making wounds take longer to close and cause cracks in the skin. Ways to get vitamin C are known: through citrus especially, but also have many vitamin C Brussels sprouts, fresh peppers (more than lemons!) And in general, all green leafy vegetables. Low levels of vitamin E too much skin cracks, which eventually can lead to conditions such as eczema appear or psoriasis. It gets more vitamin E in taking nuts, especially almonds, hazelnuts and peanuts, spinach and whole grains.

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