The Healthy Skin Diet

Learn which healthy foods to eat for great-looking skin... and which to avoid at all costs!

If you want healthy skin, you've got to eat a healthy diet. That's all there is to it. There's a reason why people who follow a strict diet for optimal health and fitness usually end up having the best-looking skin around. Your skin is your largest organ - by far - and what you put into your body has a huge effect on the health and quality of your skin.

Basic Rules of Eating for Healthy Skin

For the most part, to have great skin your diet needs to be based around fresh fruits/veggies, healthy fats, and lean proteins. Also, you need to drink at least 60-70 ounces of pure water every day. Avoid "dead" processed foods - especially those containing white flour, sugar, and trans fats - as much as possible. Finally, if you can, buy organic foods in order to avoid putting more toxins in your body (most of us already get more than enough just from the air we breath!).

The "Perfect" Skin Diet

Many experts believe that a "perfect" diet for healthy skin would contain all of the following foods:

• Raw and lightly steamed organic vegetables
• Fresh organic fruits
• Organic, grass-fed beef, bison, and poultry
• Oily, cold-water ocean fish
• Flax seeds and flax-seed oils
• Extra-virgin olive oil and macadamia nut oil
• Raw, organic nuts (including almonds, walnuts, and brazil nuts)
• Raw, organic seeds (especially sunflower seeds)
• Small amounts of whole-grain foods

If you ate only the above foods, not only would your skin look and feel fantastic, you'd also enjoy incredible health. Of course, many of these foods are not readily available in many parts of the world. But the point is to try to shape your own diet so that it looks as similar to the "perfect" skin diet as possible!

What to Avoid

There are many bad foods that will dramatically decrease the healthy of your skin, especially if you eat them on a regular basis! Basically, you need to avoid all of the following if you want great skin:

• Battered and/or fried foods
• Processed, high-fat and/or high-sodium meats
• Greasy snack foods
• All "white" foods, including white bread, pasta, and baked goods
• All high-sugar junk foods and soft drinks
• Alcohol (except for small amounts of red wine occasionally)

Learn more about eating for healthy skin by visiting the following links:

Better Skin Diet
Acne Prevention Through Diet
Healthy Skin Tips