Eating your way to sun protection (Photos)

With the warm (hot!) weather coming early to Colorado Springs, many people will be heading outside for exercise, fun, and work, but what can you do to protect your skin from the sun's harmful rays? Slathering on sunblock is one way. You need one with at least an SPF of 30. The higher the number, the better protection you'll have. But what else can you do? Eating the following healthy foods will help to protect your skin from damage.

Foods rich in lycopene like tomatoes, watermelon, and grapefruit, help to neutralize the harmful effects of UV light by getting rid of the skin-damaging free-radicals. Lycopene works best with Vitamin C, which is also in tomatoes and grapefruit. But red fruits and vegetables aren't the only foods with lycopene. Asparagus, chicken, and parsley also have lycopene.

Citrus fruits, such as oranges, grapefruits, and lemons, have Vitamin C, and is helpful in collagen production, which gives skin its youthful appearance. Over-exposure to the sun breaks down collagen, giving it a lackluster appearance and causing wrinkles.

Salmon is also a good food for your skin. Research suggests that Omega-3 fatty acids are essential in protecting the skin from UV damage and premature aging. A fat reduction overview can help you construct a clear describe of what you need to focus on to carry out your fat reduction target if you're a rookie; or serve as a reminder for these who are at an intermediate or more improve step of their losing weight program. Following are seven steps that can serve as methods for your own weight loss program. The first thing that one must understand is that losing weight and losing fat is not the same. Many weight loss courses have tricked people into believing that it is the same, but most diets and weight loss plans only work by producing a person's body to burn more muscle tissue and water than actual body fat, more help please visit The Fat Loss Factor. It also helps to alleviate the pain and inflammation from sunburn.

Avoid sugar. A diet high in sugar can cause premature aging, and pair that with sun exsposure, it's a double-whammy to your skin.

Eating healthy is not only good for your waistline, it's also very beneficial to your skin. You'll not only feel better on the inside, you'll look better and more healthy on the outside.

Sources:

http://www.healwithfood.org/sun-skin/foods.php

http://www.steadyhealth.com/articles/

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