A healthy and balanced diet can shield your insides from all sorts of bad health mojo. But it can also protect your outside. The right vegetables, nuts, seeds, oils, fish, teas, and chocolates can shield your skin from the ravages of the environment, time, and even cancer. To address every skin woe, from wrinkles, to acne, to dryness, click through this slideshow. And prepare yourself - bartenders might start asking for your ID more often.

ALMONDS - Skin boost: Sun Blocker
Almonds are stuffed with vitamin E, which helps defend against sun damage. Volunteers who consumed 14 milligrams of the vitamin per day (about 20 almonds) and then were exposed to UV light burned less than those who took none. And because vitamin E is an antioxidant, it also works to keep your arteries free of dangerous free radicals

FLAX SEEDS - Skin boost: Wrinkle Fighter
These little seeds offer a payload of omega-3 fatty acids, which erase spots and iron out fine lines. The British Journal of Nutrition reported that participants in one study who downed about half a teaspoon of o-3s in 6 weeks experienced significantly less irritation and redness, along with better-hydrated skin. Beyond flax, salmon is an omega king

COOKED TOMATOES - Skin boost: Sun Blocker
Lycopene, the phytochemical that makes tomatoes red, helps eliminate skin-aging free radicals caused by ultraviolet rays. Cooking tomatoes helps concentrate its lycopene levels, so tomato sauce, tomato paste, and even ketchup pack on the protection. So does a hunk of lycopene-rich watermelon.

SWEET POTATOES - Skin boost: Wrinkle Fighter
They're loaded with vitamin C, which smoothes out wrinkles by stimulating the production of collagen. A recent study in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition found that volunteers who consumed 4 milligrams of C (about half a small sweet potato) daily for 3 years decreased the appearance of wrinkles by 11 percent. Try papaya and carrot, too

SPINACH - Skin boost: Cancer Defender
In a study published in the International Journal of Cancer, people who ate the most leafy greens had half as many skin tumors over 11 years as those who ate the least. The folate in these veggies, which helps maintain and repair DNA, may reduce the likelihood of cancer-cell growth.

SAFFLOWER OIL - Skin boost: Natural Moisturizer
The omega-6 fatty acids found in safflower oil can be the ultimate moisturizer for people who suffer from dry, flaky, or itchy skin. They keep cell walls supple, allowing water to better penetrate the epidermis. Scientists have found that this oil may even help people who suffer from sever conditions such as eczema.

CANNED TUNA - Skin boost: Skin Tightener
Your favorite deli sandwich has a little secret: Selenium. This nutrient helps preserve elastin, a protein that keeps your skin smooth and tight. The antioxidant is also believed to buffer against the sun (it stops free radicals created by UV exposure from damaging cells).

CARROTS - Skin boost: Blemish Blaster
Think of carrots as orange wonder wands - good for the eyeballs, and good for clearing up breakouts. No magic here, though, just plenty of Vitamin A, which prevents overproduction of cells in the skin's outer layer. That means fewer dead cells to combine with sebum and clog pores. Plus, vitamin A reduces the development of skin-cancer cells.

GREEN TEA - Skin boost: Cancer Defender
Green tea releases catechin, an antioxidant with proven anti-inflammatory and anticancer properties. Research found that drinking 2 to 6 cups a day not only helps prevent skin cancer but might also reverse the effects of sun damage by neutralizing the changes that appear in sun-exposed skin. (The tea's antioxidants degrade as it cools, so drink it while it's hot).

DARK CHOCOLATE - Skin boost: Sun Blocker
Flavonols, the antioxidants in dark chocolate, reduce roughness in the skin and provide sun protection. In a study from the Journal of Nutrition, women who drank cocoa fortified with a chocolate bar's worth of flavonols had better skin texture and stronger resistance to UV rays than those who drank significantly few flavonols.

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A healthy and balanced diet can guard your insides against all sorts of bad health mojo, but it can also protect your outside. Indeed, eating the right vegetables, nuts, seeds, oils, fish, teas, and chocolates can shield your skin from the ravages of the environment, time, and even cancer.

Great list, most of those foods are on my own super-foods lists as well. Just one more I wanted to suggest, garlic!

Garlic has an immensely wide range of health benefits - it's a broad-spectrum antibiotic and antioxidant, it is used to treat skin conditions (especially acne), is believed to reduce skin cancers, boost immunity, and fights free-radicals to promote general good health. Some people even apply chopped garlic directly to their face and leave it over night as an (apparently successful) acne treatment. I've never personally tried this (and would prefer to just eat it), but each to their own. For some skin types this can cause dry skin and irritation, not to mention the strong smell.

Garlic is one of the foods I try to incorporate into my meals whenever I can. I mix it with juiced fruit, or make green tea with ginger + garlic + lemon + honey, very nice and very healthy.... or I sometimes even just dice it up and swallow it down.

As I said earlier, great list. My other favorite super foods include avocado, almonds (I make almond milk out of these), green tea, ginger, lemon and berries (particularly blueberries or boysenberries).

Peace,

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By only plagiarising some of the article Shane, you take parts out of context and this can give a false meaning, at least put the link on your post so people can read it for themselves.

I think a lot more research needs doing before I would entertain the idea of using exaggerated doses of hormones.
Here is the link

http://lahealthcare4u.blogspot.com/2009/11...anti-aging.html

Do you have an opinion on anything Shane?

There are risks that people should be made aware of............

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Growth_hormone_treatment

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Yes, I agree that eating right vegetables and nuts is the best. I had proven it.

I agree with you. These are the 10 best foods one can use to keep their skin healthy and glowing.
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These food contents are really important for health. I do agree with all the informations given in this article. These are not only important for the health but also work as anti-aging remedies. Green tea is a kind of medicine which protects from different diseases and slow down aging process. One more ingredient I would like to add is Olive oil. This creates magic for our body. This protects skin from aging and wrinkles. I liked this article.

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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 WebMD are the most important:

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