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You Eat Them Every Day: Foods That Affect Skin Color
The face may become lighter, or it may turn reddish. It all depends on what food predominates in your diet.
Food heals, food cripples, food affects our appearance. We have already talked about what products can change the color of the eyes without any lenses. And you can also change the color of the skin. For example, on …
…golden
Now the service “foundation for a year” is gaining popularity in salons. With the help of special injections, the skin is given a pleasant golden hue instead of the usual gray-green typical of office workers. But this shade can be achieved if you just eat more vegetables. Nutritionists recommend 5 servings per day, and 7 servings are needed for golden skin effect.
“If you eat two additional servings of vegetables and fruits every day for six weeks, your skin color will change noticeably,” says Dr. David Perret, head of the research team.
… yellowish orange
How do experienced nutritionists calculate vegetarians on the fly? That’s right – vegans are yellow! All thanks to foods high in carotenoids. These include carrots, pumpkin, persimmons, dried apricots, papayas, even squash and melons.
“Skin discoloration is temporary and the orange tint will disappear completely once you change your eating habits. It only takes a little time for the level of beta-carotene in the blood to return to normal, ”says Lady Dai, a dermatologist.
Most often palms and feet turn yellow. Usually they are devoid of any pigment, and therefore the orange tint on them is very noticeable.
…reddish
“A change in skin color to red can be a sign of lycopinemia, an excess of lycopene in the blood,” explains Dr. Dai. “This condition is not dangerous to health, it does not threaten a person.”
Foods rich in lycopene: tomatoes (and after heat treatment, the amount of this substance increases), papaya, guava and all the same our native carrots.
…lighter
Products with a high content of vitamin C lighten the skin. That is why it is added to all cosmetics designed to fight pigmentation. It is noteworthy that the vitamin works both from the outside and from the inside: even make masks from food, at least use it as directed. And a list of foods that are generous with the magic vitamin can be found HERE.
Do not repeat!
There are cases when human skin turns green. This happened to a 24-year-old resident of China when he ate river snails. True, the point here is not in the snails themselves, and in the parasitic infection that he picked up from them.
And the American Paul Carason managed to turn blue. He decided that drinking silver water was a great idea. And regular drinking of such water causes argyria, a condition in which silver accumulates in the mucous membranes, and it is impossible to remove it from there. At the same time, the skin turns blue, gray or even gray-black.