Skin Vitamins and Minerals

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Skin vitamins and minerals are good for our skin, but most important they are essential for our health. Apart from the vitamins and minerals that our bodies produce, there are different types of vitamins and minerals, that we can get from food. Vitamins act as antioxidants, defending our bodies from free radicals attack and, hence many diseases related to them such as cancer and heart related conditions.

Free radicals are not only bad news for our health, but for the skin and collagen too. The result is

loss of elasticity
dry skin
premature wrinkles
expression lines

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People who eat antioxidant food every day, store this vitamins and minerals nutrients, and are less exposed to free radicals attack. The main antioxidant skin vitamins and minerals that we can find in food are (If you want to find out more about each of them, just click in the coloured link).

Vitamin A.
We can find this vitamin in foods like:

spinach
parsley
but is present predominantly in yellow-orange coloured foods:
carrots
mandarins
oranges
melon
peaches
pumpkin
squash
sweet potatoes
cheddar cheese
milk
liver
And in several fishes like:
sardines
tuna

Vitamin C.
We can find this skin vitamins predominantly in fruits and vegetables like:

parsley
spinach
cabbage
cucumber
broccoli
melon
citrus fruits
and in all coloured foods like:
strawberries
cherries
redcurrants
peppers
tomatoes

Vitamin E.
Is present in:

nuts like almonds
seeds like sesame
and in all kind of vegetable oils like:
sunflower
corn
sesame
wheatgerm
olive: the best is extra virgin oil from the first press.

Selenium.
Can be found in :

nuts, specially brasil nuts
garlic
fish
seafood
chicken
turkey
brown rice
wholemeal cereals

Zinc.
This mineral can be found in:

oysters
fortified cereals
beef
pork
baked beans
nuts
cheese
yogurts
peas

Coenzyme Q10
We will find this nutrient in:

sardines
mackerel
tuna
some seafood
cabbage
spinach
peanuts

Bioflavonoids.
We can get them from foods like:

broccoli
tomatoes
green peppers
citrus
grapes
berries
apricots
cantaloupes

Alpha-Lipoic-Acid
Is present in small amounts in some foods like:

broccoli
spinach
beef
kidney
liver

Acetyl L Carnitine
Is present in foods of animal origin such as:

meat
dairy products

Glutathione
Is better to get it from fresh food, rather than cooked food:

asparagus
avocados
walnuts
spinach
tomatoes
carrots
grapefruit
apples
garlic

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