Explore the conditions due to those your skin can loose its healthy and shining look and discover your possible actions to prevent it.

Things You Can Control

Things You Can Control

healthy_skin1) What you eat

    * Pay attention to your BMI (Body Mass Index). It is draw a parallel with your age, height and weight corresponding to your risk of major disease. You can find a BMI chart easily from your doctor, the library or on the internet.
    * Eat a great number of foods containing fiber-cooked vegetables, raw vegetables, fruit and whole grains, like real oatmeal, every day. These foods keep digestion and elimination constant, which is essential to the health and beauty of your skin, as well as to your overall health.
    * Eat dark green and orange vegetables in particular - these are known to hold antioxidant and cancer-fighting properties.
    * Cut out consumption of refined, processed foods. Especially refined sugar, fast foods and packaged snack foods like crackers, cookies, chips and fries.

2) Your Medication

A lot of prescribed drugs have long-standing effects which may make skin more sensitive, mostly to sun exposure. Be certain to discuss your entire "medicine cabinet" with your health care practitioner, as well as any over-the-counter drugs, herbs or vitamin additions you may be taking on a regular basis.

3) How much you sleep

Experts say that many of us are sleep-deprived. In the whole how many hours of sleep your body needs is rather individual, but 7 - 8 hours every night is about right for most people. If you are constantly get less of it, your health, despite of your attitude, will suffer.

Insomnia is a problem for a growing number of people. If you have difficulty in sleeping, keep in mind that the experts say that routine is fundamental.

    * Try to get to bed at the same time once a night.
    * Do not read or watch TV in bed if you usually have trouble sleeping - try to correlate in your mind that bed is for sleep.
    * Don't eat or exercise right before trying to sleep, otherwise your body will be too "awake."
    * Confine or get rid of caffeine, including sodas, totally. Paradoxically, alcohol actually can disrupt sleep as well, due to its high sugar content. 

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