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Foods That Help To Clear Acne, Pimples, Blackheads

Drink Green Tea To Clear Acne

In one of our previous articles, we talked about food that could contribute to development of acne and pimples. We mentioned that different foods could lead to pimples for different people. With that said, did you know that there are foods that can help you fight and get rid of pimples too? If you didn’t know, let me tell you there are foods that do help.

Acne is a very common skin disease characterized by pimples on the face, check and back. We cannot overstate the importance of healthy diet. It may interest you that good and healthy diet is also the key to acne-free skin.

Some Foods That Will Help Clear Acne, Pimples, Blackheads

Okay, here are some foods (and supplements) that can help you to get rid of pimples on your face;

Stay Hydrated — Drink a lot Water

This might appear like, who doesn’t know that? Yes, but did you know it could help in getting rid of your acne? Water is regarded as the foundation of healthy and clear skin, so aim for 8 glasses of water every day.

Stay Hydrated — Drink a lot Water

Water will keep your skin hydrated and will help in flushing out acne-causing chemicals.

Drink Green Tea To Clear Acne

Catechins is a type of natural phenol and antioxidant. These substances help get rid of free radicals and also act as anti-inflammatory. Green tea is a great source of these anti-oxidants.

Drink Green Tea To Clear Acne

Drinking a cup of green tea every day will go a long way in clearing your face of acne. It will help with the redness, puffiness, and soreness of acne.

Foods Rich In Selenium

In one of our previously published article, we mentioned how selenium really helps in improving sex drive.  We also mentioned foods that contain them. Well, that’s not the only thing it does — Selenium can also help clear out acne.

Foods Rich In Selenium

Whole grains like rice, corn and foods with whole grains, like cereals, breads, and pastas, are good sources of selenium. As well as helping to clear acne, Selenium also helps prevent it.

Fish, Walnut, Flaxseed Help With Acne

In short, we are talking about foods that are rich in Omega-3 fatty acids. Eating more omega-3 fatty acids, such as those found in fatty fish, walnuts, flaxseed, and the like, can help  suppress the development inflammation and improve acne breakouts.

Fish Help With Acne

Food Supplements

Sticking to a diet plan is usually difficult for many people. That is why food supplements come in for people who cannot stick to the plan and desire faster results compared to when using diet.

There are supplements made from fruits, foods and herbs that can help get rid of acne. If you however, already have pimples on your face and will like to get rid of those fast, using some external skin care products is very important. A lot of people, all over the world have made use of these supplements with great success.

If you are interested in getting these supplements, you can easily send an email to foodsng2015@gmail.com and you will be pointed to the right direction. You can also call this number 08183430780 but you will get a better and detailed response via email.

It is important to note that you cannot use supplements and eat whatever you like. It doesn’t work that way. You need to observe and identify the foods that cause acne on your face and eliminate them.

ALSO SEE: Does Chocolate Cause Acne (Pimples Breakout)?

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Foods That Keep Your Heart Healthy & Functioning Properly

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I don’t want to think there is anyone here who doesn’t know how much the importance of the heart is to the whole body. When the heart stops, then every other organ in the body dies sooner than later. In the next paragraph, I will quickly highlight the important functions of the heart in the body as a refresher or reminder.

human heart

The heart is an organ that functions as a pump for the movement of blood through the body. Different parts of the body require oxygen for proper functioning, the blood as we know carries oxygen from the lungs with it. It is important that oxygen gets to all parts of the body — the brain, muscles, in fact, all cells in the body. The heart does the job of pumping blood to these parts of the body. So, why wouldn’t you strive to keep your heart healthy?

It is not enough to just eat heart-healthy foods to have a heart that is healthy and functioning properly, we must also strive to minimize foods that have adverse effects on the heart. These types of foods have been implicated in cardiovascular heart diseases. We should try to minimize how much we consume them.

Top Heart-healthy Foods: Keep The Heart Functioning Properly.

Foods That Keep The Heart Functioning Properly

Walnuts:

Walnut again? Isn’t this walnut a super nut after all? We have mentioned it under different topics because of its health benefits and here it is again helping the heart. Eating about 140 grammes of walnut per week, reduces your risk of heart disease by half.

We mentioned in one of our articles about foods that help the brains by providing essential nutrients to it, that walnut is able to provide this function because it is very rich in omega-3 fatty acids. These are very good fats that reduces the level of your “bad-for-the-heart” LDL cholesterol and raise your “good” HDL cholesterol.

Almonds:

Almonds, just like walnuts is rich in these fats that help your heart by lowering the bad cholesterol levels. These types of healthy monounsaturated fats even help you lose fats when you eat them. Ironic huh?

Unsaturated fats are not just good for your heart, they offer another benefit by boosting serotonin levels during the day, which in turn help you sleep better at night. Add almonds to foods you snack on and enjoy these benefits. When I order my Ice Cream, I do with Almonds or Pecans.

Yoghurt and Milk

Yoghurt and Milk, especially the fat-free or low-fat types help reduce the pressure on the heart. Dairy products are known to be rich in Potassium – a mineral that has been linked to lowering the level of blood pressure.

When you consume low-fat or fat-free dairy or dairy products, you get little to no saturated fat, the kind of fat that can raise your bad cholesterol level. Other sources of Potassium are most fruits and vegetables. Examples include potato and banana.

The Bell Peppers

Thankfully, man soups cook in this part of the world usually contain the bell peppers blended with tomatoes, onions, etc. Many people just feel they add the red bell peppers in order to make the soup thick and redder in color. Yes, it does these things and makes the blend “attractive”.

The orange, yellow, and red colors of the bell peppers mean that they contain phytonutrients and additional antioxidants. These antioxidants help to make sure that our body can battle back free radical damage.

Garlic

Generally, we use Garlic as a flavouring for food but it has been used for a long time as a herb for medicinal purposes. It has been used for many conditions related to the heart and blood system. Some of these diseases include high blood pressure, high cholesterol, coronary heart disease, heart attack, and hardening of the arteries.

Apart from the fact that it can make the mouth smell, we should use garlic moderately and with  caution as it might prolong bleeding. Therefore you should stay away from garlic at least two weeks before a scheduled surgery and probably menstruation.

Green Tea

Green tea has been shown to help prevent cardiovascular heart diseases. A study carried out on 40,530 Japanese adults revealed that participants who drank more than five cups of green tea a day had a 26% lower risk of death from heart attack or stroke than those who drank less than one cup of this tea in a day.

Even though no adverse effect was reported in people that took the five or more cups of green tea, it should be noted that it contains oxalate, which can cause kidney stones. So, drinking tea moderately will still give you some health benefits.

Turmeric

Several studies have revealed that turmeric helps in maintaining heart health by reducing cholesterol oxidation, reducing plaque build-up, clot formation, reduce bad cholesterol (LDL), reduce pro-inflammatory response, etc.

Heart attacks are caused by atherosclerotic plaque buildup or high cholesterol levels, therefore, adding turmeric to your diet can help you reduce this risk by a great amount.

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3 Super Foods That Detoxify Your Body

It is clear to me that everyone needs to renew their investments, property and other belongings. The computer engineer cleans up his system from virus, the property owner ensures his facility is neatly package to raise the face value and such renewals are carried out by other professional in order to make their businesses grow and flourish. While I ponder about all these, I wonder why all these people have decided to neglect the main engine room- “body” that keeps all these activities going. Friends and Families, Detoxifying your body should be paramount to you more than anything else. You need to make it flourish and healthy.

In this generation of processed foods flying all over the grocery store, busy mums have resulted to make fast foods the main meal for their families or subscribe to cooking highly processed foods that require lesser time of cooking. In most cases, processed and fast foods have been loaded with large loads of sugar to make it sweet, salt for extension of shelf life and other additives to make the products or meals attractive to the customers. In the long run of consuming all these products your liver could become over stressed if not well maintained.

detox your body

While you have decided to follow this path of feeding, it is certain that you and your family needs to regularly detoxify your body to avoid future health calamities. One organ in our body that performs the major role in the detoxification process is the Liver. It detoxifies and cleanses your body by filtering the blood of poisons that enter it through the digestive tract, the skin, and the respiratory system. Often times in cases of certain individual who indulge in serious unhealthy feeding habits, their  liver could become over stressed due to excessive exposure to toxins, your entire system can be thrown off proper functioning.

So, What Are Some Of The Foods That Detoxifies Our Body?

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Best Anti-ageing Foods To Include In Your Diet

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There are several things involved in ageing and we cannot really talk about them all. We can only talk about some of them and tell you the foods you can regularly eat to help against these ageing process. For example, antioxidants such as vitamin C, zinc, and beta-carotene help protect your vision from macular degeneration, the leading cause of loss of sight after age 64.

This vitamin C has also been shown to help keep your skin looking younger. Did I mention that the antioxidants mentioned above can also help slow down the rate of macular degeneration if you already have it? Yes, they help!

Eating good food is not the only thing that helps us slow down the rate at which our body age but also avoiding the bad foods, the junks and craps that we eat.

Timothy Harlan, MD, an assistant professor of medicine at Tulane University School of Medicine said and we quote “Poor-quality foods, like trans fats, cause inflammation — and ageing is basically a chronic inflammatory state. Can you look older because you’re eating crap? Absolutely.”

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For example, collagen is a protein that helps our skin stay firm and resist wrinkles. Consumption of too much sugar and processed carbohydrates (like bread, pasta and baked foods) can lead to damage in the skin’s collagen. The implication is that we start getting softer and loose skins with development of wrinkles.

Ageing is much more complicated than this, involving several degenerations on different parts of the body and organs. We have given few examples above so we can have an idea of what ageing looks like all over. So what foods can we include in our diet to retard the ageing process. We cannot stop it but we can make effort to slow it down.

5 Anti-ageing Foods To Include In Your Diet