Have you tried every potion and lotion out there that claims to give you younger looking skin with no success? There could be a cheaper way to achieve youthful skin and beauty. You could simply start eating an apple a day the way your mother always told you to. Eating an antioxidant diet is a good way to help you look younger and feel better.
Not only will you start looking better but you will have better health on the inside. Good health starts from the inside, topical creams will not help as much as good foods.
What are Antioxidants?
Antioxidants are compounds that will help to cancel out or balance the unhealthy environments that we live in today. It doesn’t matter if you are a non smoker and run three miles a day, everyone is exposed to pollution, sunlight, and second hand smoke at some point. Your body is exposed to free radicals when you are exposed to these three things.
Detoxifying your body is the only way to get rid of free radicals. The best way to do this is to have an antioxidant diet. An antioxidant diet consists of foods that are rich with antioxidants. You can even take a dietary supplement to help you filter out all the toxins you absorb in the course of a day.
You can start your antioxidant diet by color coding your food. Look for foods with distinctive colors, red tomatoes and cherries, bright yellow corn and mangoes, and deep blue blueberries are all good things to have in an antioxidant diet. Another way to find antioxidants in food is to look at the nutritional content of your food.
If the food you are eating is rich in Vitamin A, C, and E then you are already getting plenty of antioxidants. Besides providing you with protection against age related diseases these foods are good for your overall health. Try to minimize cooking the foods in your antioxidant diet. Foods such as tomatoes have more antioxidants when raw than when you cook them. If possible try to buy organic so that your food has no chemical traces in it.