How You Get 5 Portions of Fruits and Vegetables for Your Skin Care and Staying Young

We know how important fruits and vegetables to get antioxidant for our skin care. So now how we get 5 portions that has suggested by the expert? Next are the tips.
Try to experiment with new recipe or mix the fruits and vegetables to make it more interesting. Boiled vegetable isn’t too interesting but vegetable that sautéing at high temperature can be cooked more fast, delicious and maintain the nutrients. Many vegetables can be roasted. Beside paprika and tomato, try carrot, cauliflower and broccoli. Better if use olive oil. Raw vegetable like carrot can be eaten in the form of salad and sandwich complement. Or enter into casseroles and soup. Enter the fruits in pie and pudding.
If all those methods are failed, try to get vitamin supplement. But remember that pill isn’t as good as natural food and doesn’t give fiber.

Tips for best diet for skin care and staying young

• Choose organic fruits and vegetables.
• Eat the fresh agricultural produce in the day when buy it.
• Eat at least 3 portions of fresh fruits per day.
• Eat at least 3 portions of raw vegetables or steamed at a short time per day.
• Eat raw salad per day that contains as many as possible of plants, example: baby lettuce, watercress, spinach, carrot, pea, tomato, cucumber, sweet corn, bite, broccoli, nut and grains.
• Try to fill your plate with 4 colors, contain of green color vegetable, yellow, red and orange.
• Cook vegetable soup and heated it only when going to eat.
• Avoid the food that smoked and pickles that ready to buy.
• Eat low fat diet that give lower calorie than needed so will reduce your body weight slowly.
• Reduce the foods that comes from animal, especially red meat, replace with fish and soybean.
• Increase your nut consumption.
• Avoid all polyunsaturated fat, margarine, vegetables shortening and hydrogenated fat.
  Better use olive oil and rapeseed oil.
• Consider to drinks antioxidant supplement.

Special Portion For Skin Care and Staying Young

The experts now find antioxidant foods have biggest anti aging ability. Antioxidant can be found in fruits and vegetables. That is why fruits and vegetables are called anti-aging medicine because its vitamin and minerals content do many numbers of works. At least to fight against free radicals that damage.
This free radicals are formed when O2 join with other molecules, produce high energy chemistry substances that seek something to join and cause damage that can’t returned back.
Vitamin (A, C, E) and antioxidant minerals (zinc, copper, manganese, selenium) in fruits and vegetables can stop free radicals attack. Carotenoid vitamin is effective antioxidant that contains of betacaroten (in carrot), lycopene, lutein and zeaxanthine.
According to the expert, we need to consume antioxidant regularly in a big amount. The method is: eat 5 portions of fruits and vegetables everyday. Then what’s the meaning of 5 portions?

Five portions for your skin care and staying young

Portion is a terminology that used by nutritionist. The meaning isn’t always 1 piece or 1 slice. Portion here is determined by the fruit and vegetable kinds. For example: 1 apple is equivalent with 1 portion but 1 small pineapple is more than 1 portion.

One portion of fruit is equivalent with:
• 1 apple or orange or banana
• 1 big slice of melon or pineapple
• 2 small fruits (example: plum, kiwi, satsuma)
• 1 full cup of berry (raspberry, strawberry) or grape
• 2-3 tablespoon of fresh fruit salad, stewed or canned fruit
• 1 glass (150 ml) of fruit juice.

While 1 portion of vegetable is equivalent with:
• 1 full tablespoon of fresh vegetable, ripe that frozen
• 1 bowl of dessert full salad.

Vegetable and fruit are the best. Vegetable that frozen, canned and dried up is also good choice. Potato isn’t included as vegetable but is a good carbohydrate and fiber source if eaten with its shell.
If you can’t eat 5 portions of fruit and vegetable in a day, so try to eat as much as you can. Then the next article is about how you get those 5 portions.

Tips for Eyes Treatment

Black glasses can helps you to hide your eyes, but this can’t be done forever. Prevent is better than overcome. These tips to help you get health and beauty eyes.

• Get much water can reduce swollen and black circle that caused by dehydration.

• Protect your smooth skin around your eyes from sunlight damage. Smeared the sunblock and use black glasses that also contain UV light protector.

• Use eye cream skin care product that special for the skin around eyes that more thin, more sensitive than other part.

• To overcome the damage that has occurred, use cream skin care product that contains Retin-A to stimulates collagen production and elastine that will refresh the skin.

• Lay stretch out can reduces the fold in the check, forehead and swollen eyes that cause the skin loose.

• Reduce the swollen in eyes with cold cucumber slice compress or tea bag that has poured with boiling water and put in the refrigerator. Beside will tranquilize, this cold compress also make you seem more fresh.

• Choose the glasses that contain UV light protector. That glasses can prevents sunlight that can break the smooth skin under your eyes.

Main Enemy of Your Beauty

Your skin care is an investment. Your skin in advanced age is the result of your skin care in young age. Be careful with these things that can influence your skin care.

• Smoke
SmokingSmoking will wrinkles the blood vessels, reduce O2 that inhaled, make the skin become gray and use up vitamin C that needed for collagen formation.
Cause wrinkle and fold around the mouth caused by inhale the cigarette.
• Pollution
Pollution influences your skin with the same way like smoking. The difference is, pollution isn’t cause the mouth became wrinkle and fold.
• Dry air
Your skin is ease to thirsty and dry. Use moisturizer and prepare water spray to moisten your face skin when you are in a place with dry air.
• Reduction and increase of body weight
Your skin isn’t rubber, although it is enough elastic. Skin can become loose, not tight or has stretch mark because of diet.
• Pull the skin copiously
Skin care products (makeup or facial) should smear with soft caress. Pull the skin can cause skin become loose.
• Cleansing or exfoliation copiously
Scrubbing towel and face scrub is designed to exfoliate the skin with clean up it. If you scrub the skin copiously, your skin will irritate.
• Alcohol
Alcohol cause dehydration in the body, make your liver works hard and use up vitamin B in the body.
• Medicines
Some medicines can cause photosensitivity (sensitivity toward sunlight), dry skin even light acne.
• Constipation
Toxin can accumulate in the body if excrete isn’t smooth. Some toxin passes some canals and often that canal is our skin. Many drink plain water and many fibers can help to accelerate the excretion.
• Sunshine
Copiously sunlight explode can make your skin dry, wrinkle and early aging even skin cancer.
To get the sunlight that needed for vitamin D formation, get before 10.30 a.m. or after 16.30 p.m.

Does Your Foods Make You Look Old?

The foods give a big contribution to your skin care. So with bad habits like smoking.
Certain foods can worsen and force your liver, heart and kidney to work hard. The other foods will arise inflammatory response that cause aging.
These are the foods that will support your skin care program.

• Choose fresh fruit and vegetables
  Fruit and vegetable contain many nutrients for health skin. Eat at least 2 portions of fruits.
  To get maximum result, choose organic and local product. Fruit and vegetable that packaged attend to lose many nutrients because too long time in the supermarket rack that lighted by lamp.
  Avoid cultivated food and junk food that contain high additive chemistry, sugar and salt that worsen our body and produce free radicals.
• Plain water
  Plain water has a big role for your skin care.
  Get around 1.5 l plain water every day. You can drink 1 l water and get the remains from your drink like herbal tea, soup, fruit juice and vegetables.
  Try to limit your tea, coffee and soft drink and alcohol consumption. These drinks can cause dehydration. Caffeine also increases cortisol hormone and insuline level that accelerate cells damage. If you can avoid it, get caffeine drink not more than 3 cups a day. For alcohol drink only 1 or 2 portions.
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  ProteinProtein deficiency can speed up aging. Get fish as a best source of quality protein. Example: salmon, mackerel and tuna, also bean, yogurt and legumes of various shorts. Avoid high saturated fat red meat that can cause high cholesterol and difficult to digested so will worsen the body.
  Limit your steak consumption and avoid cultivated meat because usually contain many salt and additive.
• Get health fat
  Not all fat are bad. Essential fatty acid like found in grains, bean, lindseed have important role in your skin care because can maintain immune function and wholeness cells function. So it is very important for health skin.
  Avoid consume saturated fat in a big amount. Example: fatty red meat, cheese, margarine, biscuit because will worsen the body. Eat in a few ammount only.

Cucumber as Natural Skin Care

Cucumber as natural skin care can be used to get fresh and shiny face skin, also can overcome swollen eyes. Some natural skin care tips from cucumber:
Cucumber astringent

• For reduce oil in oily skin.
  Prepare ½ part of cucumber. Remove its shells. Cut and enter into blender until refine. Smeared to your face for 15 minutes. Rinse with cold water. Dry up with slowly massage with towel.
• Cucumber – avocado mask
  Gives nutrients to the skin, minimize the pore, lifts the dead skin cells.
  Put these ingredients into blender: ½ cup of cucumber that has peeled, ½ cup avocado, 1 egg, 2 teaspoon of milk powder. After refine, save in refrigerator for 30 minutes. Smeared to face and neck for 30 minutes. Rinse with warm water then with cold water and dry up with towel.
• Cleanser mask
  If you seek skin care treatment for pimply skin, try this method.
  Put in blender: ½ part of cucumber that has peeled, 1 teaspoon of milk powder, 1 teaspoon of plain yogurt. Smeared to your face. Let it for 20 minutes then rinse.
• Cucumber for lusterless skin
  If your skin is lusterless and oily, you need this natural skin care ingredient.
  Get 1 teaspoon of cucumber slices, give a few rose water, put on your face, let for 15 minutes then rinse with warm water.
• Overcome swollen eyes
  Slice the cucumber and put on your eyes for 15 minutes.
• Reduce black circle under the eyes
  This natural skin care can tighten the loose skin under your eyes. There are 2 ways:

1. Put cucumber slice under your eyes or mix it with carrot essence. Let it for 20 minutes. Rinse with cold water.
2. Mix cucumber slice with milk. Save in refrigerator for 30 minutes. Put on your face under your eyes for 20 minutes. Rinse with cold water.

When You Should use Cleanser?

pingThe first step in your skin care is keeps the clean skin. Some ways to clean up your skin that have suggested now are assumed wrong. Scrub face excessively can cause sensitivity and dry skin. The best is smooth cleaning with clean hand. If in the past, we are suggested to use scrubbing towel, now a part of dermatologist are suggested to leave it. Scrubbing towel can abrasive your face and become a bacteria place.

When you have to clean up your face?
You certainly know with this role: don’t go to bed without clean up your face. The dirt that clings at the face can cause black head, white head and clogged the pore. Some dermatologists suggested to clean the face up for 2 times: in the morning and the night. Clean up the face in the morning may depend on your choice, but clean up the face in the night is compulsory.
The other expert suggested that cleaning frequency is depends on lifestyle. You can clean up your face in the morning if you exercise or much sweaty or use night cream skin care product.
If you clean up your face in the morning, to save your time, you can do it with take bath. Use special cleanser for face. The body soap and cleanser can make your face dry and irritate.