Foods for Healthy Skin: You Are What You Eat

Want truly fabulous skin -- glowing, vibrant, and, yes, younger-
looking skin? Make sure you're putting foods for healthy skin on your
plate.

"Everything you eat becomes a part of not only your inner being, but
the outer fabric of your body as well. The healthier the foods are
that you consume, the better your skin will look," says Samantha
Heller, MS, RD, a clinical nutritionist at NYU Medical Center in New
York City.

The reverse is true as well, Heller tells WebMD. The less attention we
pay to what goes in our mouth, the more problems we may see cropping
up with our skin.

"You could have sallow skin, dry skin, older-looking skin. It's not
going to happen overnight, but starve your skin long enough, and it's
going to show," she says.

What's more, some health experts believe that when your diet is
missing certain foods for healthy skin, other, even more serious skin
problems can result.

What Are Foods for Healthy Skin?

Most experts say eating a balanced diet is the best way to get your
share of good food for healthy skin. Still, a number of specific skin
treats are more likely than others to give a boost of glowing good
health to your complexion. Here's what experts told are the most
important:

Low-Fat Dairy Products. One the most important components of skin
health is vitamin A. One of the best places to get it is low-fat dairy
products. In fact, experts say that the health of our skin cells is
dependent on dietary vitamin A.

Nutrition expert Liz Lipski, PhD, CCN, says it's doubly important to
eat A-rich dairy foods if you have either diabetes or a thyroid
condition.

"Many people who have these problems can't convert the beta carotene
to vitamin A, which is the form found in many foods that we normally
associate with this vitamin, such as carrots," says Lipski, the
founder and Director of InnovativeHealing.com and the author of
Digestive Wellness.

Lipski says low-fat yogurt is not only high in vitamin A, but also
acidophilus, the "live" bacteria that is good for intestinal health.
Turns out, it may also have an impact on the skin.

"Anything that helps keep digestion normal, any live bacteria or
enzymes, is also going to be reflected in healthy-looking skin," says
Lipski.

Blackberries, blueberries, strawberries, and plums. The common link
between these four foods is their high antioxidant content. In a study
recently published in the Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry ,
these four fruits weighed in with the highest "total antioxidant
capacity" of any food. The benefits of these foods for healthy skin
are plentiful.

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