A balanced and focused diet on beauty
Starting from the assumption that food can bring us much more than some creams-out of price-, culinary stylist Catherine Moreau and dermatologist Dr. Nadine Pomarède have written this beauty nutrition guide in four hands to dust off the basics of nutrition. a beautiful skin diet!
A first step towards a targeted diet that does not exclude the cosmetic care to maintain its skin but allows to "kill two birds with one stone": that of nourishing with the basics of a balanced nutrition, while targeting the nutrients that impact our skin ... and its drying, aging, or radiance. At the box office beautiful skin foods include lentils, steak, crustaceans and all foods rich in iron, vitamin D and zinc ... A book that twists the neck to a few misconceptions about diet and its impact on our beauty :
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To moisturize your skin you must eat fat!
True
the skin needs a food intake of essential fatty acids from which it makes what is called the good fat, necessary to maintain the water in the skin
You have to drink a lot to hydrate your skin
False
the flow of the water circulating in the most superficial part of the skin remains unchanged, whatever the amount of water brought by the vessels into the dermis via the bloodstream.
Better to eat raw carrots than cooked
true
In raw vegetables or in juice, the carrot brings twice as much beta carotene as when it is cooked.
Against acne , the zinc diet is the most suitable
True
foods rich in zinc (oysters, steak, veal liver ...) regulate the secretion of sebum and limit the push of the pimples.
Dark chocolate rich in zinc is good against acne
False
Although cocoa is rich in zinc, it is also rich in saturated fats and especially in fast sugars, so to avoid ...
Iron is essential to the beauty of the hair
True
The growth of the hair requires quality nutrients (lamb, pork, dried beans lentils ...) brought to the level of the root via micro-circulation. A strict diet or deficient in components such as proteins, fatty acids and vitamins are sources of hair loss.
Well hydrated skin ages less quickly
True
skin's moisture level affects the formation of wrinkles
We can concoct an anti-wrinkle menu
True and false
A diet rich in vegetables, pulses and olive oil have a protective effect vis-à-vis skin aging. as part of an anti-aging strategy, it will also reduce sun exposure, and cigarettes are the worst enemies of age.
Eating light in the evening decreases weight gain
True
The choice of food but also the time of their decision are important, the storage of fat seems favored in the evening, we opt for a hearty breakfast!
Chromium is the trace element anti-fat taint
True
Chromium is a trace element essential to our body, especially for the control of sugar levels. And because of this, it would limit its transformation into lipids by the fat cell.
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