Just watched a science programme and .. sugar is ageing and will make your skin look older.

Any bitter tasting veg - radishes, broccoli are good for your skin, lots of oily fish.
Avoid rice potatoes and pasta if you can.
Don't eat anything that sounds like a chemical.

Any one changed their diet recently and noticed an improvement?

I started drinking green tea most of the week last year and not too long after, my sister and mom both commented on how great my skin looked and how I looked 10 years younger. I already look young for my age so that green tea is some powerful shit!

Hello,

I also drink green tea, the stuff you get from a Chinese shop that's all leaf like. You can probably get it on line.
I tried the packeted stuff but it didn't taste the same.

Yeh, a friend drinks loads of green tea and swears by it. It's meant to decrease your risk of getting cancer and possibly make you live longer -a longer life without kids!

I've just started the alterntate day fasting thingy, fasting for 3 days in every 7. This means filling up on lots of veg on the fasting days (I am allowed 500 calories, on a fasting day).

Today is the last day of the first week and yesterday Mr LaT commented on the fact that I was looking much heathier. He couldn't be specific, but talked in terms of improvement in skin texture and clarity.

Years ago I also saw a doumentary on non surgical face lifts, these looked at 3 case studies: electrical non surgical face lift e.g. CACI, facial massage and changing diet to a fish based diet. After 10 weeks, guess who came out looking the best and having the most improvement.............yep, the fish eater!!

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lemon water without added sugar first thing in the morning is great! so does green tea.
daily exercise is a must to maintain healthy skin.

if you have access to asian herbal store look up the tamarind and turmerick drink.

It's true-it helps to harden and wrinkle the skin through a process called glycation. It apparently becomes a real problem after about the age of 35 or so. I happen to have an addiction to sugar. While my diet is generally very healthy, sugar is my weakness.

I've tried to substitute xylitol for sugar but find that in the case of gum and candies, it seems to make me crave sugar all the more. I've grown accustomed to drinking my hot green or white tea with no sugar at all, and long ago eliminated soft drinks and juices. Sweet drinks have always been a weakness. But even so, I'll gorge on fruit and can't be like around things ice cream. My s.o. went into town and I asked him to bring me back a milkshake from a fast-food establishment-I know I should text him and tell him nevermind, but I really want that milkshare!

As far as my eating influencing my skin appearance-I can't say that when I'm substaining on fish, vegetables, fruits and nuts that it makes any discernable difference. I will say that when I eat a great deal of sugary foods, I notice a lot more sprouting of random, unwanted hairs But as far as skin appearance goes: it's the topical things-mainly moisturizing and using an alpha hydroxy treatment (in other words, exfoliating) that make the biggest improvement.

But I love pasta!

LOL!

I love green tea and brocoli though too though.

Just drinking lots of water also helps skin. I am amazed at how people don't drink water. When I was a kid water was my favorite beverage as opposed to those juice boxes.

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