Can eating foods that help improve skin elasticity in aging skin actually improve your skin health?
Sadly though maintaining skin elasticity into older age isn’t quite as simple as eating 2 or 3 foods.
But it’s also quite clear that your diet does affect your skin health and your skin elasticity as you age. You need to eat a healthy diet high in vitamins and minerals and anti oxidants and this will definitely make a difference to your skin.
A healthy diet is good for general health and skin health. So the advice you see everywhere about diet is as important for your skin as for your body. Eat plenty of fresh fruit and vegetables, reduce fat, especially saturated fat, reduce salt and sugar intake and make sure you do this permanently.
But there are many people who think that there are miracle foods that help improve skin elasticity in aging skin and which help slow the skin aging process. And to some extent thats true. But actually producing the result you want, namely to improve your skin health and the looks of your skin simply by eating isnt as easy as you might expect.
Here’s 2 of them.
1. Omega 3 is one of the fats that you don’t want to reduce in your diet. I’m sure you’ve heard of omega 3, it’s a fatty acid found in some foods, but particularly oily fish, and it’s very good for your heart health and has some other general health benefits. But you may not know that it’s also very good for your skin.
A diet high in omega 3 fats is well worth it, for your overall health as well as your skin health. However it is quite difficult to ensure adequate levels of omega 3 in your diet unless you regularly eat large quantities of oily fish. In some cultures this happens all the time. But in ours the right types of fish isn’t a huge part of our diet, and is very expensive.
2. Next comes phytessence wakame, a seaweed. You can eat it, although it may not sound quite as appetizing as it could. But the Japanese have eaten phytessence wakame for centuries, dried and fresh, and it is a big part of the Japanese diet.
And its no coincidence that Japanese women have the worlds best skin right into old age. And science knows why this is, its because of all that seaweed they eat right throughout their lives.
There’s all sorts of reasons why phytessence wakame is so good for your skin, but that’s the subject of another article. I’ve written a lot more about it on my website.
That’s 2 foods that help improve skin elasticity in aging skin and there’s more, but I’m leading up to a point here.
So there’s no doubt that eating a generally healthy diet is very good for your skin right through life, but actually finding specific foods that help improve skin health and things like skin elasticity isn’t easy.
And sometimes, although the ingredients of some foods are good for your skin, they can be better applied topically, or direct to your skin, rather than eaten.
So if you want to improve your skin elasticity and want to do so naturally how do you do so? And I should say that improving skin elasticity is one of the best ways to fight skin wrinkles.
What you can do is to use the best natural skin care products that contain all these ingredients in one easy to use product.
Most of the big brand skin care products don’t use ingredients like these, they use chemical ingredients manufactured in a lab, because they’re cheaper. But you can get natural skin care products that use all these types of natural ingredients and much more. That way you don’t need to be spending your days eating fish or searching out seaweed and trying to work out a way to eat it that tastes ok. Eat a good diet by all means, but use good natural skin care products to do the heavy lifting work when it comes to improving skin health and skin elasticity.
If you’re specifically interested in improving skin elasticity then the best way by far is to use natural skin care products that contain ingredients from the best foods, as well as from many other natural sources.
I write more about these products on my website.




April 10th, 2009
Cliff Bacot
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Great article on foods that help improve skin elasticity. Maintaining moisture levels will help ensure your skin stays hydrated and less prone to cracking. I like using virgin coconut oil as a natural skin oil. I find it really helps ‘seal’ in moisture and helps keep my skin smooth and healthier-looking. I apply it to my skin while in the shower to help moisten and soften my skin.
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