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"Glow Skin
Glow!"
"Want to know what you should eat and
drink for clear, radiant skin? Barbara Baker has the answers"
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Everyone has a favourite face cream or treatment, but beautiful skin
starts from within. Eat the correct balance of foods and you’ll feed
your skin the vital nutrients to help it stay soft, supple,
blemish-free and young looking.
EAT PLENTY OF FOODS RICH IN VITAMIN C,
such as black currants, blueberries, broccoli, guava, kiwi fruits,
oranges, papayas, strawberries and sweet potatoes; they all help to
produce collagen that strengthens the capillaries that feed the
skin.
MAKE SURE YOU GET ENOUGH OMEGA-3 AND
OMEGA-6, both essential fatty acids. You will find
omega-3 in oily fish, but plant sources like linseed and flax are
excellent, too. For omega-6, try safflower, sunflower and corn oils.
Eating
foods that contain sulphur can help to keep skin
FOOD RICH IN VITAMIN A, help the
growth of new skin. Liver, eggs, milk and oily fish are good sources
along with fortified cereals.
EAT A FEW DRIED APRICOTS EVERY DAY.
They’re full of iron to help improve your skin tome. So are sesame
seeds-add them to cereals and muesli.
DRINK PLENTY OF WATER to
rehydrate your skin – aim for eight glasses a day. Tea, coffee and
juices do count, but for really great skin, stick to plain
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water and
don’t smoke.
OF ALL THE B VITAMINS vital for
great skin, Vitamin B2 or riboflavin helps your skin glow. Best
sources include beef, cheese, eggs, liver and Marmite.
FINALLY, once you make changes
in your diet, don’t expext an overnight miracle. It takes six weeks
for new skin to emerge up to the surface, so the visible benefits
from dietary changes will take just as long. So it’s never too soon
to start.
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"LOOK-GREAT AVOCADO SALAD"
Packed with nutrients that are good for your skin, eat this avocado
salad once a week and wait for the compliments.
In a bowl, mix together: 1avocado, peeled and cut into small chunks,
1 red pepper, diced, 1 tsp pumpkin seeds, 1 tsp sunflower seeds, a
handful of large spinach leaves, finely chopped, and two or three
walnut halves.FOR THE DRESSING:
Toast 1 dessert spoon (dsp) mixed sesame, mustard and poppy seeds in
1 dsp olive oil until they ‘pop’. Remove from heat. Mix with a
further ½ dsp olive oil, ½ dsp avocado oil, ½ dsp balsamic vinegar,
¼ tsp mustard and ¼ tsp honey.
Season and mix well. Toss the salad in the dressing and serve. |
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HYDRANGEA
ARBORESCENS
Botanical Name: Hydrangea arborescens
Linn
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Family: |
Saxifragaceae |
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Common
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Seven barks |
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Habitat: |
United States |
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Parts used: |
Rhizome and
roots |
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Alcohol
percentage: |
57- 61%v/v |
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Active
constituents: |
Glycosides (hydrangin),
saponins, resins, rutin, essential oil and flavonoids
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Action: |
Diuretic, anti-lithic,
sedative to cystic and urethral irritation |
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Clinical: |
Bladder
catarrh, renal calculi, urethritis |
Indications
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A remedy for gravel, profuse of white amorphous salts in urine1
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Calculus, renal colic, bloody urine1
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Relieves distress from renal calculus, with soreness over region
of kidneys and bloody urine1
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Acts on ureter, sharp pain in the loins-especially left1
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Spasmodic stricture1
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Burning in the urethra and frequent desire1
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