Putting your best face forward starts with making healthy skin start from the inside out. "Unless your skin is getting the nutrients from food that it needs, it just won't look its best," says WH advisor Lisa Drayer, R.D. Here are 7 food items you can eat for great skin-
Bell peppers
They are low calorie and versatile - grill them, stiry fry them or eat them raw. These juicy, hot and sweet veggies have a flavor of their own and what's more they help you get flawless skin too.
Dark chocolate
Yes, this sinful favourite can give you absolutely healthy and perfect skin by increasing blood circulation in the body. Plus, it's full of antioxidants and so, you will detoxify your body with a piece a day.
Green tea
Replace your daily beverage with this healthy flavorful and fat free version. It detoxifies and cleanses your body from inside and the effects show outside.
Seeds
They are snacky and fun to eat and the essential oils present in sunflower, chia, flax, pumpkin and all kinds of different seeds, ensures that moisture levels are in control and the body gets enough vitamin E. Plus they are rich in protein too.
Papaya
Low calorie, sweet and great for the body papayas make great face packs as well as purify your insides. They are beneficial for women suffering from ovarian problems too and now, they make excellent skin purifiers. The vitamin C and E and beta-carotene present, helps cure inflammation.
Tomatoes
Sure, they are swell on salads, but cook them down and these plump little beauties can help save your skin. Lycopene, the phytochemical that makes tomatoes red, helps eliminate skin-aging free radicals caused by ultraviolet rays.
Almonds
Almonds are seeds, not nuts, and they are stuffed with vitamin E, a potent sun blocker. Volunteers who consumed 14 milligrams of the vitamin per day (about 20 almonds) and then were exposed to UV light sunburned less than those who took none.
