Skin Diet with simple Food

The food in your kitchen has been just as important for keeping skin soft and smooth.

"Good nutrition is a fundamental building block of healthy skin"

Romaine lettuce:

 The mineral potassium in romaine "gives skin a refreshing boost of nutrients and oxygen by improving circulation,".

Tomatoes

 Eating red helps keep skin from turning red. Volunteers who consumed 5 tablespoons of high-in-lycopene tomato paste daily for 3 months had nearly 25% more protection against sunburn in one study. Even better, the skin had more collagen, which prevents sagging. Another reason to toss an extra tomato into your salad: German scientists report that higher skin levels of this antioxidant correlate to fewer fine lines and furrows.

Strawberries

A cup has up to 130% of the DV of vitamin C, a potent antioxidant that boosts production of collagen fibers that help keep skin smooth and firm.

Almonds

 "Eating a handful of almonds every day boosts levels of vitamin E, one of the most important antioxidants for skin health,". You'll get a surge in moisture too--a boon for those prone to dryness.

Walnuts

These nuts are storehouses of alpha-linolenic acid, an omega-3 fat that's a key component of the lubricating layer that keeps skin moist and supple. A 1/2-ounce serving of walnuts provides 100% of the recommended daily intake of ALA.

Cocoa made with dark chocolate

Women in one study positively glowed after drinking 1/2 cup, thanks to a significant increase in circulation that lasted 2 hours. But a daily cocoa habit may rejuvenate your complexion even more. Women who drank 1/2 cup of cocoa high in flavonoids (as is dark chocolate) every day for 12 weeks in another study had significantly softer, smoother, and better hydrated skin. Try Nestle Hot Cocoa Dark Chocolate.

Benefits of tulsi leaves

Few diseases in which tulsi works as a medicine:

Benefits of Tulsi Leaves for Skin problems:

a. People suffering from vitiligo or disease where you have white patches on skin: having ‘shyama tulsi’ daily has cured many with such disease. We had a maid with this disease few years back and mom used to give her tulsi leaves daily. You would not believe she got 60% of the patches cured with it and was very thankful for the same.

b. Skin fungal infections known as ‘daad-khaj’ can be treated by applying paste of tulsi leaves churned with lemon juice.

Benefits of Tulsi Leaves for developing a sharp mind:

Have 5-7 leaves of tulsi with water in the morning while you are empty stomach. My mom used to give me and she asked me to chew it properly and then gulp down. (that is reason I am so intelligent you see :P )

Benefits of Tulsi Leaves in Fatness and laziness:

Having tulsi leaves with fresh home-made curd helps in lowering down excessive weight. This also fights laziness and fills up your energy levels and also helps in new blood cells formation.

 Benefits of Tusli Leaves for vPeople those who experience frequent vomiting:

Have mixture of ginger juice, juice from tulsi leaves and honey together. It will benefit you.

Benefits of Tulsi Leaves for facial skin:

Benefits of Tulsi Leaves

Rub dried leaves of tulsi just as you rub some powder on your face. This will improve your facial skin in many many ways. (Remember many face washes have tulsi as the main ingredient).

Benefits of Tulsi Leaves in Malaria:

Boil black pepper, tulsi leaves and jaggery together to make a ‘kaada’ or thick liquid out of it. Add lemon drops in it. Drink this hot liquid after every 2-3 hours. Cover yourself with a blanket and sleep. You will really feel better.

Benefits of Tusli Leaves in Labor pains:

Tying the roots of the tulsi plant at the back of the pregnant lady decreases the labor pains and delivery becomes easy. Drinking the juice of tulsi leaves also decreases labor pains.

• Benefits of Tusli Leaves for children:

Some children experience loose motions at the time of tooth eruption, give them a mixture of pomegranate juice and powder of dried tulsi leaves- they will feel better.

• Benefits of Tulsi Leaves for treating Hair fall/grey hair:

Soak dried tulsi leaves powder and amla powder in water overnight.
 In the morning strain that water and wash your hair with it. This will prevent hair fall as well as greying of hair.

• Benefits of Tulsi Leaves in CANCER:

Benefits of Tulsi Leaves

Mix 10 grams of juice of tulsi leaves (you will have this with around 30 tulsi leaves) in 20-30 grams fresh curd/ 2-3 spoons of original honey. Have this daily. Believe me; this cures cancer if taken religiously.

• Benefits of Tusli Leaves In case of burns:

Boil mixture of tulsi juice and coconut oil, allow it to cool down and then apply on the burnt skin. This will help in fast relief from blisters and wounds.

• One universal way of treating many diseases:

Benefits of Tulsi Leaves

Grind 25-30 of tulsi leaves and add 5-10 grams of fresh homemade curd/5-7 grams of original honey to it. Having this mixture continuously for 40 days treats cold, cough, gout problem, kidney stone, vitiligo(white patches of skin), fatness, low energy with advancing age, continuous loose motions, acidity, low digestion or mand-agni (as told in ayurveda), head ache(even of long duration), blood pressure problems (low or high), heart problems, breathing problems, wrinkles and even cancer.

IMPORTANT:

People who experience accumulation of excessive heat in the body should not take tulsi in summers as tulsi is also hot in character.

Do not take milk 2 hours before or after having tulsi.

Do not pluck tulsi leaves after sunset. Pluck them only after sunrise the next day.

MY SUGGESTION:

Whenever you take anything as a medicine, believe that it will cure you and do not doubt the same. Your positive belief in the medicine will itself cure half of the disease.

Take care!

10 THINGS YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT SUGAR

Every time you buy something rich in sugar, you are sending a message that you don’t care about your body, that you are satisfied with food that is making you sick, fat, and unhealthy.
1. WHY SHOULD YOU BE CONCERNED ABOUT HOW MUCH SUGAR YOU CONSUME?
- Sugar adds empty calories to your diet. “Empty calories” means foods, which don't have any nutritional benefit.
- Sugar promotes belly fat.
- Eating excess sugar could lead to weight gain, obesity, diabetes and “diabesity” which bring a host of other health problems such as heart disease.

2. WHAT HAPPENS IN OUR BODY WHEN WE EAT SUGAR?
When we consume sugar, our body has two options on how to deal with it:
- Burn it for energy.
- Store excess sugar in our fat cells.

3. HOW DOES OUR BODY STORE EXCESS SUGAR IN FAT CELLS?
- When our pancreas detects a rush of sugar, it releases a hormone called insulin to deal with all of that excess sugar.
- Insulin helps regulate that level of sugar in our blood and store all of this glucose in fat cells

4. WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN ADDED SUGAR AND NATURAL SUGAR?
- Added sugars are those that are added to foods. The most common added sugars are regular table sugar (sucrose) or high fructose corn syrup.
- Natural sugar is the kind of sugar contained in fruits, vegetables, and other plants.

5. HOW MUCH ADDED SUGAR SHOULD YOU CONSUME PER DAY?
According to the American Heart Association (AHA), the maximum amount of added sugars you should eat in a day are:
- Men: 150 calories per day from added sugar (37.5 grams or 9 teaspoons).
- Women: 100 calories per day from added sugar (25 grams or 6 teaspoons).

6. HOW MUCH NATURAL SUGAR IS GOOD FOR YOU?
- Specific sugar recommendations aren’t available for natural sugars which occur in fruits.
- Fruits are packed with beneficial vitamins, minerals and fiber.
- Your daily consumption of Fruits and Vegetables should be around 33% of your diet.

7. WHAT ABOUT FRUIT SUGAR?
- When you consume fruit, you are not only consuming fructose, but also consuming fiber and lots of vitamins and minerals, which are good for your health.
- But yes, fruits do have an effect on our blood sugar, as it is sugar.
- Generally fruit will cause less of a blood sugar spike compared to nutrient-void table sugar.

8. WHAT ABOUT FRUIT JUICES?
- When you consume fruit juices, the juice is squeezed, giving you all of the juice but very little of the fiber or nutrients that get left behind in the process.
- For this reason, many fruit juices should probably be called “sugar water”.
- If you are going to eat fruit, get it in fruit form, not juice form.

9. WHICH ARE THE FOODS THAT CONTAIN LOT OF SUGAR?
- White bread (maida)
- Pasta (unless whole grain)
- White flour (maida) products made with it such as cake, cookies, crackers, doughnuts and muffins.
- Potato chips and sugar rich chocolates
- Products with added sugar, e.g. jams and jellies
- Salad dressings and sauces with added sugar
- Fruit drinks containing added sugar
- Sugar-sweetened soft drinks

10. WHAT ARE THE BEST THINGS TO EAT WHEN YOU CRAVE SOMETHING SWEET?
- If you are going to eat sugar, get it from fruits.
- Go for plain yogurt with fruits.
- If you can't pass up something with added sugar, make sure it is made with oats or whole grains instead of white flour (maida).

So, there you have it. I encourage you to decrease your sugar intake, start eating more real foods and cut back on soft drinks purchases. Are you up to the challenge?

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