Healthy foods are not always popular. However, they can be delicious with very little trouble. If you are having difficulty forcing down fruit instead of fruit-flavored creamsicles, then consider using this information to give yourself a little extra motivation.

There are many healthy foods that also fight off wrinkles and other signs of aging. In fact, just eating right can not only help you live longer, it can also help you look younger while you are doing it. So next time you are thinking that you might like to chow down on a peanut butter crunch bar, consider grabbing just a handful of nuts instead. Sound not nearly as appealing? It may by the time you are done reading…

Here are just a few healthy foods that are proven age-fighters:

•    Oranges and other citrus fruits
Oranges and citrus fruits are high in vitamin C. Vitamin C is one of the best healers out there when it comes to literally sealing up wrinkles and cracks in your skin. Topical vitamin C is popular in anti-aging products. However, the ability to heal from within is also important and eating oranges will give you a major dose of this vitamin.

•    Walnuts
Walnuts are full of antioxidants. This makes them great providers for these cancer-fighting compounds. They not only interfere with skin cancer development, but they also fight discoloration and other environmental weathering.

•    Green tea
Green tea is another great source for antioxidants.

•    Almonds
Almonds and almond oil are full of vitamin E. When applied topically, vitamin E lightens scars and stretch marks. It can also diminish existing age spots. However, when taken internally vitamin E can help prevent the formation of these marks in the first place.

(Note: if you are about to have surgery, ask your doctor about the appropriate amount of vitamin E for your diet. Some people find that they bleed more when they take extra vitamin E so you might want to cease any supplement during this time.)

As you can see, there are a lot of positives to healthy eating. Next time you are tempted to skip out on the healthy foods, reread this list for extra motivation!

Does all this sound intriguing and delicious? Read about healthy recipes or check out these books and calendars that members of our staff find particularly helpful:

• Yoga Turns Back the Clock Deck: Fight Fat, Wrinkles and Fatigue
  You may groan, but this stuff really works for lots of people. And you can do it at home — cheaper than a gym membership or doctor’s visits for sure!
• Feed Your Skin, Starve Your Wrinkles
  100 of the best anti-aging foods. Straightforward and to the point. She doesn’t mess around.
• The Eat, Drink and be Gorgeous Calendar
  We love the book, but we live by the calendar! Daily recipes, tips and tricks for having your cake, eating it too, and looking fabulous in the process.

Thank you for reading at www.BeautyCtr.com !

Understanding natural skin care is crucial to successfully protecting your skin from aging. There are thousands of products out there that claim to prevent aging. One way to know if they are truly anti-aging products is too look at the ingredients. Some anti-aging products are full of chemicals that have been tested and refined to produce results. However, these products can be hard on your skin if they are not properly balanced. The best anti-aging products use nature’s own ingredients to insure that you get the best results possible.

There are many types of natural ingredients that will help stall or prevent your skin from showing the aging process. Here are four major components of most natural skin care products that let you know that nature is working for you:

1.    Aloe
Aloe is a classic moisturizer . It is easy to absorb and encourages the skin to retain water. Aloe also heals damage. Products containing aloe are optimized to encourage your skin to soak up moisture. This prevents skin damage in the form of tears and rips that lead to wrinkles.

2.    Chamomile and Rose extracts
These two plants are as common in teas as they are in makeup – and for similar reasons. Chamomile is soothing to the mind and the body. Roses and rose water create pure, simple cleansers that keep skin smooth, clear and clean without a lot of extra foaming chemicals.

3.    Almond extract
Eating these nuts can help “fool” your skin into acting and looking younger than it is. Almond extract also works topically to heal skin. The antioxidants in almonds fight off free radicals, highly charged molecules that can attack your skin can cause serious damage including skin cancer.  Nuts and nut extracts are major players in innovative natural skin care.

4.    Vitamins A, E, D and B.
All of these vitamins are good for your skin. They help heal tears in the skin that, left untreated, could become permanent wrinkles. They also help your skin produce collagen long after your body naturally stops making it. After the age of 25, a good vitamin regimen is critical to your anti-aging beauty routine since your body stops making the majority of the vitamins that your skin needs to remain youthful looking at this time.

These are just a few of the ingredients that can play a key role in your natural skin care regimen. Also look for phytonutrients (plant-based extracts) that use botanical extracts to naturally encourage your skin to remain young-looking, firm and wrinkle-resistant.