Eat Brightly Coloured Foods
Colourful foods are high in anti-oxidants, which can help protect your skin from the sun's worst effects by reducing your free-radical load.
The more colourful the plant, the higher it's protection against unwanted rays.
Some of the most colourful plants get their hue from lycopene, a naturally occurring pigment- or type of carotenoid- found in red and pink fruits. Carotenoids help people by clustering in those places most vulnerable to sunlight: the eyes and the skin.
Raw tomatoes are high in lycopene but cooked tomatoes are even better for you since cooking releases lycopene.
You can also get helpful amounts of lycopene from watermelon and pink grapefruit. Other carotenoids are easy to find. Stick to brightly coloured blueberries, strawberries and red, yellow and orange peppers.
(Natural Health Magazine May 2008)
No comments:
Post a Comment