Everyone wants to grow old gracefully, to look as young as you can for as long as you can. Some are turning to get that youthful look while others seek a more natural way to maintain that healthful smooth glowing skin. There are many other options for you to help maintain your youthful skin besides the drastic surgical alternative.
Changing the foods you eat or adding better food to your diet is one way to help your skin stay younger longer. Foods high in antioxidants are good choices. This hidden “miracle” is called antioxidants. You've heard of them you know you should be . But what are antioxidants and what can they do to keep you looking your best?
Antioxidants are substances that help to slow down or prevent damage done by free radicals. This can also slow down the aging process. A variety of foods contain antioxidants.
Free radicals are unstable molecules that damage your body. Free radicals are unstable because when they are formed they are missing an electron. So they are constantly searching for that missing electron. They actually steal the missing electron from the nearest stable molecule making it unstable. Some free radicals are formed naturally during metabolism. Your own immune system cells will sometimes purposefully create them to neutralize viruses and bacteria. Cigarette smoke, radiation, chemicals, and other environmental factors can be the cause of free radicals as well.
The results of free radicals in the body may show up as the development of diseases like cancer, diabetes, arthritis and neurological deficiencies,as well as thinner skin, wrinkles and brittle bones. Free radical damage accumulates with age. The more free radicals we encounter, the greater the damage that can be done.
Antioxidant substances combine with free radicals and neutralize them. Once they are neutralized, they can no longer do any damage. As of yet there are no set recommendations of antioxidants to correct free radical damage and the diseases that come with age, but we do know that eating foods rich in antioxidants or taking vitamins known to contain antioxidants can make a huge difference in how we live and how we age.
Where do you find antioxidants? They are all around us. Fruits and vegetables contain the principle sources of antioxidants. Antioxidants are also found in nuts, legumes, cold water fish, seafood and red meat.
Examples of antioxidants include:
Vitamin C
Vitamin A
Vitamin E
Lutein
Lycopene
Beta-carotene
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