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What to eat to prepare the skin to the sun
Going on holiday, enjoying the sun, and cultivate a good tan on the beach or the mountains are moments of relaxation and well-being that delight us. Fostering a healthy and balanced diet to give your body what it needs and prepare your skin for tanning. Here are some tips for effectively and enjoy the sun safely.
Take advantage of seasonal foods
Sun exposure generates more free radicals, oxygen molecules that can cause damage in our body. To neutralize them, we must supply a steady and sufficient antioxidants, molecules that are found in our food. In summer, the shelves are full of fruits and vegetables rich in these precious nutrients. Overuse of fresh seasonal vegetables, preferably organic quality.
On a plate, invite greedily carotenoids which give the fruit and vegetables an orange or red, often masked by chlorophyll. Among them and perhaps the best known: beta-carotene (or pro-vitamin A) which can be found in carrots, spinach, parsley, sweet potato, melon, dried apricot, yellow peach, mango, red pepper, watercress, alfalfa.
Note that beta-carotene in carrots is an advantage assimilated by the body especially when eaten raw.
Eating effective
For your eyes, strained, increase your intake of lutein present in corn, marigolds, green beans, spinach, green cabbage, lettuce, fresh pollen and cyst willow, etc. Consuming also zeaxanthin, mainly present in corn. Not forgetting the famous lycopene that is found in tomatoes (even when it is cooked and combined with lipids), watermelon, guava, pink grapefruit.
The menu also valuable antioxidant vitamins: vitamin E than is found in wheat germ oil, sunflower oil, wheat germ, almonds, hazelnuts, oil, cod liver etc.. Vitamin C is essential, it is present in the acerola, guava, goji berries, kale, kiwi, broccoli, parsley, citrus, etc.
Add two more to essential in the fight free radicals: selenium, found in fish, seafood, eggs, Brazil nuts, whole grains, legumes, brewer’s yeast, etc.., And zinc present in oysters, shellfish, herring, meat, liver, wheat germ, egg yolk, lentils, mile, etc..
Not forgetting to pay your summer salads good fatty acids omega 3 and 6 fatty fish oil, nuts, camelina, rapeseed oil for omega 3, evening primrose and borage for omega 6.
You can also opt for a dietary supplement containing a mixture of these precious elements, in this case make sure that beta-carotene and vitamin E content of both natural and not synthetic. This treatment is ideally 2-3 weeks before the show or before the summer. It is also recommended to extend it during the exposure if the skin is sensitive or reactive. Also consider urucum an Amazonian plant orange color extremely rich in beta-carotene, about 100 times more than carrots and stimulating the production of melanin.
Hydration for good tan
It is also important to drink plenty and often. In summer, we sweat twice as much as usual and lose water and minerals. Hydration is important. Eat so without moderation, water and natural fruit juices. The fruit juice industry are high in sugar but low in nutritional value.