Your skin reveals what your mouth eats or doesn’t eat. Energy consumed into the bloodstream nourishes your skin. Alcoholic drinks and caffeine containing beverages, act as mild diuretics to dehydrate your system. But consuming supplements from fruit and vegetables, juices or herbal teas can be very helpful. Also drink six to eight glasses of water each day for better results.

Fruits, Vegetables and Fiber

Fruits and vegetables provide the backbone to keep you brightly beautiful and healthy by flushing toxins out of your body and avoiding constipation. Fresh, raw foods also contain enzymes that act as the body’s housekeepers to keep the bloodstream clear, and, cooked or uncooked, fruits and vegetables offer an appetizing supply of vitamins and minerals necessary for skin health.

Protein

Skin is predominantly protein, requires a daily supply from the foods you eat because protein molecules are not absorbed through the epidermis into underlying tissues, and registers a deficiency by becoming slack and loose. Collagen-containing protein foods help prevent and smooth out wrinkles. Fish, meats, poultry, eggs, dairy products, help your body equalize the balance between new and dying cells.

Copper

It is important for the production of skin pigment and for the prevention of blotches under the skin from ruptured blood vessels. It also cooperates with other nutrients to preserve the integrity of the elastic-like fibers supporting the skin.

Zinc

Aids in the formation of collagen, helps prevent dry skin and stretch marks, and promotes blemish healing. Without enough zinc a deficiency of Vitamin A can occur even though the intake of that vitamin appears adequate.

Fats and Oils

The unsaturated fats in vegetable oils assist assimilation of fat soluble vitamins A, D, and E; contribute to your own natural oils to give your skin sheen, plump out fine lines, and create the fresh-faced look of youth. One or two tablespoons a day can be used as salad dressing or whizzed in the blender with milk, fruit, or vegetable drinks.