Nutrition
Combatting ageing skin with diet
In this chapter, we will be discussing how we can slow down the ageing of our skin through our diet.
As we age, we start developing wrinkles, age spots and dryness on our skin. The skin also becomes thinner as we lose fat and muscles, making it less plump and smooth and may take longer to heal.
Fortunately, it is never too late to start protecting yourself. Many products, including medications claim to revitalise ageing skin or reduce wrinkles but the dietary aspect has proven to be equal to the task.
Foods to include
• Monounsaturated fatty acid rich foods such as; olive oil, almonds and avocados
• Vitamin C rich foods; oranges, tangerines, lemons, bell peppers and pineapples
• Vitamin E rich diet; spinach, sun flower seeds, pumpkin, peanuts and kiwi
Foods to avoid
• Sodas and caffeine rich drinks
• Red meat and meat products
• Processed foods
Lifestyle modification
Modifying our lifestyle from a predominantly sedentary lifestyle to incorporating exercises like going for walks, jogging, and riding bicycles, as well as cutting down alcohol intake, and cigarette smoking will serve to prolong a healthy, strong and ageless skin.
In summary, it is obvious that there is no fountain of youth to keep us young forever, but maintaining healthy, vibrant skin for many years is not out of our reach. By implementing and including desired fruits and vegetables to our diet, as well as good lifestyle choices, our skin will thank us for generations to come.
The writer is a Nutritionist and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Holistic Health Consult.
“Your diet, your health, your health your wealth.”
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By Bernice Korkor Asare
Nutrition
Benefits of eating vegetables
Eating vegetables offers numerous health benefits. It includes
– Treatment and prevention of cancer
-Boost immune system
-Promotes healthy skin
-It controls weight management
-Vegetables lowers risk for chronic disease
-Vegetables are good for the heart
-Cholesterol controller
-Regulates high blood pressure
-Prevents hair fall
-Prevents cardiac issues
Source: healthnews.com
Nutrition
Mother’s day special meal
Mother’s day is tomorrow and indeed our able mothers’ need to be pampered and celebrated with some delicious meals.
Interestingly, these delicious meals can be either local or continental, with a side fruits or snack.
This week, The Spectator will guide readers in the preparation of assorted fried rice for all mothers.
Ingredients
-2 cups of rice
-6 litres of oil
-10 large shrimps
-3 slices of spring onions
-2 large carrots
-5 large eggs
-1 large green pepper
-1 bottle of soya sauce
-1 pound of chicken
-1 pound of gizzard
– A pack of sausage
– Salt to taste
-2 tablespoonful’s of grinded ginger
-2 tablespoonful’s of grinded garlic
-Seasoning
Preparation
-Wash chicken, gizzard and shrimps and put it on fire
-Add grinded ginger, garlic and salt to it (leave it to cook for some time)
-Put oil on fire to fry chicken, gizzard and shrimps
-Cut spring onions, green pepper and carrots into a clean bowl.
– Put rice on the fire and allow it to cook
-When rice is ready, spread it on a clean bowl to dry so that it will be crispy
-Put two tablespoonful of oil in a pan
-Add two eggs to the oil and stir
-Cut sausages in sizeable shapes and add it to oil and eggs.
-Add vegetables to the eggs and stir continuously
-Add shrimps and gizzard to it
-Add rice and soya sauce to the mixture and stir continuously
-Allow everything in the bowl to mix well and serve
Some vegetables that can be eating raw
-Broccoli
-Cucumber
-Cabbage
-Carrot
-Lettuce
-Celery
-Spinach
-Kale
-Onion
-Garlic
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