Foods That Give You Fresh, Younger-Looking Skin

4. Oily Fish rich in omega-3s

Oily fish that are rich in Omega-3 fats hugely encourage the body to produce anti-inflammatory compounds. These anti-inflammatory compounds can help protect our skin against inflammatory skin conditions such as eczema and psorasis, leaving our skin smooth, fresh and young-looking.

One may want to argue that oily fish would contain fat and what we want to do is avoid consumption of fat. If you have read this article in which it was explained that you may actually need fat to burn fat, you would change that notion. The fatty acids contained in fish oils are also very essential – our body cannot produce them, so we have to take them in through diets such as this from oily fish.

Let me use the words of dermatologist and skin care expert, Nicholas V. Perricone, MD, to summarise it all. In his best-selling book, The Wrinkle Cure, he wrote;

Foods rich in omega-3 fatty acids help reduce the body’s production of inflammatory compounds — natural chemicals involved in the ageing process, that affect how healthy the skin looks and feels.