EAT YOUR WAY TO BEAUTY

Going on a diet can be a good thing. However, there are so many new fangled diet styles out there that you just don’t know which ones work and which ones are just fads. But, regardless of whatever dieting system and style you are an advocate of, there are ten kinds of food that you should be ingesting a lot of to keep yourself trim, healthy and beautiful.

Top healthy foods
 
Fruits: Research proves that eating at least five portions of fruits each day has plenty of health benefits. It can help to prevent heart disease and some cancers.

Essential fatty acids: Essential fatty acids (EFA), also known as the good food fat, is needed to keep the cells of the functioning properly. EFA also helps improve the condition of the skin and makes the hair and fingernails grow healthier.
 
Garlic: Garlic is high in antioxidants and is a kind of food that is widely known to prevent cancer. Garlic also helps lower the body’s cholesterol levels and reduces blood pressure as well.

Green tea: Green tea is full of antioxidant that helps to prevent specific kinds of cancer from developing in the body. It also pumps up the immune system and helps lower the levels of cholesterol in the body.

Green vegetables: Vitamins A and E, as well as fiber and iron, are found abundantly in green, leaf vegetables. Vitamin A retains the moisture in the eyes, the skin and mucous membrane, while vitamin E helps maintain the skins elasticity. On the other hand, fibre improves digestion, and iron is needed for production of red blood cells.

Milk: Milk is the best source of calcium and vitamin D for the body. Calcium combined with vitamin D is good for keeping the bones and teeth strong, it prevent disease like osteoporosis. Milk also has B2 and B12, which coaxes the body to produce more red blood cells. Red blood cells bring oxygen to the cells. Having a healthy supply of red blood cells swimming in the blood stream keeps the hair and skin healthier.

Soy: Soy has a cancer preventing antioxidants as well as vitamin E and amino acids. It helps the skin retain its smoothness and elasticity.

Vitamin C: Vitamin C boosts and the immune system and makes the body less vulnerable to disease. Vitamin C is also important key in the body’s collagen production, collagen being a chemical that keeps the skin elastic and wrinkle free.

Yoghurt: Yoghurt is also a good source of calcium, vitamin D and vitamin B. Aside from these; yoghurt contains friendly bacteria that assist in digestion, hydrates the skin and clears the immune system.

Chocolate: Yes, you read it right. Chocolate is an essential food to eat to stay beautiful. Chocolate encourages the production of endorphins and serotonin harmones that generate a nice and pleasant feeling for the body. You look beautiful if you feel beautiful.

Water: Do not forget water! Water keeps the body hydrated. When the body is hydrated, the skin becomes smooth, supple and youthful. The hair has more shine and bounce when there is enough water in the body, and the nails are stronger. Water also flushes out the waste and toxins out of the body.

Beware of fad diets

There are literally hundreds of different diets that have at one time or another been promoted as the best approach to losing weight. Unfortunately, most of them, in their efforts to succeed, involve omitting certain foods, and sometimes even entire food groups (for example, high proteins diets suggest significantly reducing the percent of carbohydrates in the diet, an important component of the recommended eating guidelines based on the food pyramid).
Fad diets take form in many ways, low fat low carbohydrates, high protein, or focusing on one particular food item such as grapefruit. These diets lack major nutrients such as dietary fibre and carbohydrates, as well as selected vitamins, minerals, and protective photochemical, such as antioxidants (substances found in vegetables which are protective against disease). Over the long term, by not receiving the proper amounts of these nutrients, you may develop serious health problem later in life.
For the good food groups sthat these diets do permit, the proportions are either well above or well below those recommended by major health organizations such as the American Heart Association and the American Dietetic Association, as well as the Surgeon General, and the US Department of Agriculture.
Some common claims of these diets include blaming particular hormones for weight gain, suggesting that food can change body chemistry, or touting or banning a particular food. However, they all have one thing in common: They offer only a temporary solution to what for many people is a life long and chronic condition. Once the diet is stopped, the lost weight is usually regained quickly, and when weight is lost rapidly, chances are it is not fat that is lost, but water weight and precious muscle- but when it is regained, it is usually all gained as fat. This is because none of these diets teach you how eat right.

While there is no set approach to identify fad diet, here’s how you can spot one:               
• Recommendations that promise quick fix.
• Dire warnings of dangers from a single product or regimen.
• Claims that sound too good to be true.
• Simplicity conclusions drawn from a complex study.
• Recommendations based on a single study or testimonial.
• Dramatic statements that are refuted by refutable scientific organizations.
• Lists of ‘good ‘and ‘bad’ foods.
• Recommendations made to help sell a product.
• Recommendations based on studies published without review by other researches.
• Recommendations from studies that ignore differences among individuals or groups.
• Eliminating 1 or more of the 5 food groups.

Devoting you to a lifestyle that includes exercise and eating a proper diet with moderate portions is still the best method to lose weight. People who will take on to a lifestyle that follows a diet based on the recommended food pyramid will slowly and safely lose weight.