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Natural Beauty Vitamins For Skin & Hair
Vitamins aren’t just for your health, they are great for your beauty as well. Your skin, hair and nails are greatly af- fected by what you are a putting or lacking to intake into your body.
There are plenty of creams and serums out here, but the natural vitamins and minerals found in food are even better for your overall beauty health.
Vitamin A - Great For: Wrinkle Prevention
Got dark spots, laugh lines or crow’s feet? You need to consider upping your vitamin A intake, as it contains lots of retinoids that boost the skin’s collagen levels and speed of cell turnover. Essen- tially, it helps to smooth out your skin and give you a more even complexion.
Natural options: sweet potatoes, green leafy vegetables and cantaloupe.
Vitamin B - Great For: Acne Prevention
Proper enzyme functionality helps with acne management. Vita- min B is great for this! It helps to reduce inflammation of the skin, delivers hydration and boosts the production of ceramides and fatty acids.
Natural options: Chicken, Tuna And Mushrooms.
Vitamin C - Great for: Skin Damage
Vitamin C helps protect the skin from harmful things like the sun, free radicals and toxins. It also helps fight against inflammation and skin aging.
Natural options: citrus and vegetables.
Vitamin E - Great for: Hair Loss
Vitamin E is a great antioxidant that repairs your skin as well as stimulates your scalp when used regularly for hair growth. This great vitamin also is known to aid in the prevention of split ends.
Natural options: tofu, spinach, nuts and avocados. Zinc - Great for: Healthy Cuticles
Zinc is great for repairing damaged skin tissue and bringing mois- ture back to it. This is particularly great for dry skin and cuticles.
Natural options: seafood, beef, spinach, and beans.
4 Simple Steps To Clean Your Kidneys
Just like you clean your skin outwardly with soap and water, there are certain steps you can take to cleanse your liver & kid- neys — the vital organs that help process and filter out food, medications, alcohol and other substances that enter your body.
What you take into your body can pollute your liver and kid- neys, make it hard for them to function properly. This can lead to innumerable kinds of compli- cations, including renal failure, kidney stones, liver cirrhosis and hepatitis.
Here’s 4 steps to keep your liver and kidneys clean:
Step1-Drinkhalfacupof water with 4 to 6 tbsp. of apple cider vinegar daily before eating
your meals. The acidity of apple cider vinegar helps detoxify the liver while helping it break down fats. Apple cider vinegar also helps prevent kidney stones from forming.
Step 2 - Drink one to two cups of pure cranberry juice not from concentrate every day. Tannin is the active ingredient in cranberries and works by helping your liver remove cho- lesterol out of your blood while flushing out bacteria and toxins from your kidneys.
Step 3 - Add one serving of artichokes to your daily diet. Ar- tichokes contain cynarin and chlorogenic acid that help pro- tect and strengthen the liver while helping the kidneys filter out toxins from the blood and excrete them in urine.
Step 4 - Exercise at least 30 minutes daily to strengthen your cardiovascular system. This will help improve blood flow and oxygen to your liver and kidneys while helping them process out toxins fast. Make sure to consult your doctor be- fore beginning any new exercise program.
In the meantime, keep these foods in constant rotation of your diet so that you are con- stantly cleansing your kidneys:
Watermelon – watermelon contains a lot of water and also has a function of diuretic which can make people produce more urine so as to remove more
wastes from the body.
Lemon juice – you can add
to your water half a cup lemon juice a day, as lemon juice helps to reduce kidney stone forma- tion. You can also use apple cider vinegar instead of a lemon: simply mix 6 teaspoons or so in about a gallon of puri- fied water and drink throughout the day.
Berries – berries are very rich in antioxidants and contain many disease fighting qualities. They help to flush out uric acid from the kidneys thus keeping them healthier. Cranberries and blueberries are the best choice among all the berries, as they contain a substance that washes away the urea and uric acid from the kidneys. Also red grapes are very good for the kid- neys.
Apples – apples are high in antioxidants and fiber and have anti-inflammatory compounds which can improve kidney func- tion.
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