— How the food you eat can affect your skin

If you want beautiful skin, what you eat matters. Here are twelve healthy beauty foods to help keep your skin healthy, fight inflammation and keep aging at bay.When it comes to beautiful skin, we often lean heavily on what we can put on—or in (hello, injectables)—our skin, like face and eye creams or sunscreen. Turns out, what you put in your body as part of your daily diet can help keep you looking youthful, too—as well as help fight inflammation, which plays a role in physical ailments such as psoriatic arthritis and diabetes.

Women have been using foods as skin and facial treatments for centuries — for example, making masks of egg whites and olive oil, or putting cucumbers over their eyes to reduce swelling. But did you know that the food you put in your mouth can affect the health of your skin more than anything you could put on your face?

Although studies find certain individual foods can help you maintain healthy skin, your overall diet — as well as your weight — matters most. For instance, if you’re overweight and/or you eat a diet high in processed foods (including white bread, cookies, ice cream and packaged dinners) and low in fiber and fresh fruits and vegetables, you have a higher risk of developing a condition called insulin resistance, which can lead to diabetes.

In this condition, insulin, a hormone that “unlocks” your cells so glucose, or fuel, can get in, doesn’t work very well. All this glucose builds up in your bloodstream instead of disappearing into cells where it’s supposed to go. This, in turn, damages skin. How? By reacting with the protein fiber network (the skin’s collagen and other proteins) that make skin resilient. This reaction creates harmful waste products called advanced glycosylation end-products, or AGEs. Fibers stiffen, skin loses it elasticity and you become more vulnerable to wrinkling, sagging and damage from ultraviolet (UV) light.

But eat a varied and nutritious diet, and it’s amazing what can happen to your skin. In one study, researchers found people who ate the most fruits, vegetables and fish had the least amount of wrinkles. However, the researchers found diets high in saturated fat, including meat, butter and full-fat dairy, as well as soft drinks, cakes, pastries and potatoes (called “high-glycemic” foods), increased the likelihood of skin wrinkling. Coincidentally, these high-glycemic foods are also implicated in insulin resistance.

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