Autumn
You arrive in autumn with a few extra kilos after the summer months and, in addition, noticing the effects of sun exposure on your skin. Two problems that you can solve by including in your shopping basket some foods with a double function, which become good allies for both your skin and your figure.
The sun generates free radicals that accumulate in our cells, causing cellular damage and collagen destructuring, resulting in aesthetic alterations such as wrinkles, sagging skin and spots with loss of luminosity and uneven skin tone. It also activates enzymes called metalloproteinases that degrade collagen and consequently increase sagging skin.
Therefore, we need to focus on treatments that help us control these aesthetic alterations and diet will help us complement these treatments and achieve better results, since what we eat has a significant influence on the condition of our skin, as well as on our silhouette.
Fruits and vegetables, allies of our skin
Specialists strongly support the Mediterranean diet, which is very rich and varied and provides us with foods that we should include in our autumn shopping list to keep our skin in good condition and control excess weight and thus maintain our figure, such as fruits, vegetables and greens.
They are beneficial for keeping the skin in good condition due to their antioxidant content. They will help us neutralize free radicals and we will have brighter skin, with a uniform tone, with fewer wrinkles and sagging. In addition, due to their water content, they will help us hydrate our skin and strengthen it, making it less vulnerable to external aggressors.
In addition, we can also keep the kilos under control because fruits, vegetables and greens help to control excess weight and maintain our figure due to their low calorie content, high fibre content and diuretic properties.
The skin is very sensitive to a lack of vitamins such as A and C, iron, essential fatty acids and zinc. For this reason, in the fall season, we will include seasonal products rich in vitamins, antioxidants, fiber, low in fat and calories in our shopping list , and we will emphasize the importance of eating fruits that have diuretic properties and help eliminate impurities that accumulate in the skin and control excess weight, such as oranges and tangerines.
Chard, spinach and carrots
Including vegetables and greens is always a good option. These three in particular promote the elimination of waste, which helps reduce impurities that tend to accumulate on the skin. In addition to helping us keep the scales in check, they provide vitamin A, which is essential for the skin, as well as for hair and nails, which are more fragile in autumn.
Avocado
This food is rich in essential fatty acids. It is a very nutritious fruit, easy to digest and high in Vitamin E, so it is suitable to include it in toning diets to increase vitality.
This is especially interesting in autumn, as it is a time when there is a change in cycle, fewer hours of light, a return to routine that leads to suffering from a certain autumnal asthenia.
Artichokes and Broccoli
This vegetable is low in fat and rich in protein and carbohydrates. It also has diuretic and detoxifying properties for the liver, which help us eliminate free radicals.
It is a good ally to control skin conditions and allergic processes.
Broccoli is an essential food due to its great nutritional properties. It is rich in protein, calcium, provitamin A (beta-carotene) and vitamin C. It is also low in fat and sugar and is satiating, making it suitable for weight loss treatments.
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