Island Life Magazine Ltd April / May 2016 | Page 89

Eat your way to glowing skin
Five foods with hidden super beauty powers
Butternut Squash

Cabbage

Suffering from fine lines? Fill up
on Butternut Squash and Carrot
soup. Butternut squash (as well as
carrots and sweet potato), are rich
in carotenes and Vitamin A which
can help to protect against skin cell
damage.

Puffy eyes don’t you just love ‘em?
But instead of slathering on a heavy
layer of concealer, diuretic foods like
cabbage have been found to help
flush out excess water (which can be a
cause of large under-eye bags.

Figs
For those of you who find their skin
more susceptible to facial redness
or broken veins (and find that no
amount of ‘sensitive’ facial lotion is
helping matters), snacking on this
hero fruit is said to help matters.
According to Cook Yourself Young
author Elizabeth Peyton Jones ‘this
may indicate a lack of flavonoids –
which are plant-based molecules rich
in antioxidants.
Eating fruits, such as apples and
figs, will help raise flavonoid levels.’

Cottage Cheese
Who knew cottage cheese could
be skin clearing? For a beauty boost
smear this selenium rich treat over
some rye bread in the morning. Dry,
flaky skin be gone!
Japanese Potatoes
Japanese potatoes that are high in
Hyaluronic Acid help keep wrinkles
away. I think that the best way to get
it in your system is by eating them in
foods that naturally have them.

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