Vitamins For Skin- Preparing Food

Preserving Vitamin Content In Food:

How To Be Healthy

A very important and often overlooked aspect of our lives are the vitamins we take in e

very day. When we come to think about it, they are everything! To enjoy beautiful, glowing, wrinkle free skin as long as possible, be sure to eat fresh fruits and vegetables prepared to provide the maximum benefit.

Without vitamins body builders could never lift the weights that they press every day to develop huge muscles, beauty queens would not have beautiful figures, and Acne free, glowing skin, and Mitt Romney would never have been able to muster up the brain power to accumulate a lifetime of success.
Unfortunately, vitamins are lost during food processing. In most cases, food producers can replace these vitamins with synthetic vitamins,making processed food nutritionally equal to the unprocessed food. Foods in which vitamins have been replaced are considered restored foods.
Because some vitamins are easily destroyed by light, air, and water, it is wise to understand how to preserve the vitamin content of food during its preparation and cooking. Vitamin loss can be avoided by:

• Buying the freshest, unbruised vegetables and fruits and using them raw whenever possible

• Preparing fresh vegetables and fruits just before serving

• Using as little water as possible when cooking, and having it boiling before adding vegetables, or, steaming them

• Saving the cooking liquid for later use in soups, stews and gravies

• Storing fresh vegetables and most fruits in a cool, dark place

Classification of Vitamins

Vitamins are grouped according to solubility. A,D,E, and K are fat-soluble
B and C complex are water-soluble.
D is considered a hormone

Fat Soluble Vitamins

Fat soluble vitamins are not lost easily in cooking, and excess amounts can be stores in the liver. Because of the body's ability to sore this vitamin, deficiencies take longer to appear, High doses of these vitamins should be avoided because they may reach toxic levels.

Natural Looking Self Tanners

    Never forget to wear  self tanner in the summer. A tan is a rather complicated thing. It ages the skin dramatically, but when we have a light tan, we actually appear younger. That explains how just about everyone became addicted the sunbathing in the 60s and 70s. It does tremendous damage to the skin in the long run, but in the short run it delivers a satisfaction of looking better and younger. 

Fortunately, there are many great self tanners on the market today. This should cure the fix for those who believe that they must tan. 

Some of the very best go on looking brown, never orange, such as Fake Bake, Moroccan Tan, and bronzers, if you already have some color.

Here is a link to the very best, and reasonably priced self tanners. Fountain of Youth- Self Tanners.

There are numerous bad self tanners, but if one knows which ones look natural, they are well worth the purchase.

Fake tans are nothing new. My father, who grew up in Europe during the 1940s remembers his friends buying something called, "Man Tan", that this group of young men put on in Scotland before going away for the summer to meet "lady friends." Unfortunately, it rained and the guys were left with extremely contrasting brown and white streaks on their faces after walking to the train station in the rain. 

I can relate. Being a precocious young girl in the 70s, I was fascinated with beauty and fashion, and found a bottle of QT (Quick Tan) in my mother's makeup bag. I read the directions and was fascinated by what I read. This product claimed that you could rub this stuff on and tan weather or not you even bothered to go outside. Of course I tried it only to develop the strangest brown streaks that one can imagine. I was careful putting it on, but I still managed to have ugly streaks everywhere. The product would not even wash of the hands.

One thing that I have noticed about the new fake tans is that they are generally not as dark looking as the older faux tans, but they are far less streaky. In fact, after practicing a few times, and always being sure to wear disposable gloves during application, my fake tans look absolutely flawless.

My personal favorite is Moroccan Tan, and a close second is Fake Bake.

There are products on the market these days that actually do work. They are not necessarily the most expensive, or the heavily marketed.  Here are some of the best beauty products available today.

In general, keeping your skin hydrated, lips as plump-looking as possible, and your eyelashes long, will certainly go a long way when it comes to looking youthful. I am certain that the reason so many celebrities have their lips overly injected is because they can afford to have injections in the first place, and when they see how much younger fuller lips make them appear, they become addicted to the stuff. The results of overly injected lips is a distorted face that looses all natural beauty. Using a good lip plumper such as lip explosion, will add a plump and soft look to your lips that will add to your youthful looks, and using Revitalash will detract from fine lines around the eyes, and draw attention to your beautiful eyes and eyelashes.

The Secret To Looking Young

Never abuse your skin with the attitude that you will fix the damage later. Wrinkles, despite what the plastic surgery shows present to you, are hard to get rid of. Even if you were to spend top dollar on surgery, the odds are that you will not totally eliminate wrinkles.

That being said, you can make an effort to prevent them in the first place, and when the slightest sign of new wrinkles begin to show, start working on them immediately.

At home chemical peels, and home laser treatments are a great way to treat serious wrinkles and not lose all your money at the same time. Skin should be cared for every day, not just when you feel like looking good. Using an inexpensive moisturizer morning and evening are a must.

Damage is accumulated every day, and doing something to fight the damage, and reverse it if possible, every day is the way to feel beautiful in your own skin for a lifetime. Don't forget the sunscreen!

Just as you go to work or run your business with the utmost seriousness, your skin needs TLC every day. Follow The Fountain of Youth, and you will begin to see results, and feel better about  being in your own skin.

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