5 Best Tips for Glowing Skin

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5 Healthy Habits for a Happy Glowing Skin

One of the best things you can do for your skin is to take good care of your body - and your health.

As our largest organ, our skin has a big job to do. It works hard to keep germs from entering the body and protects against environmental threats like the sun's ultraviolet rays.

That's why keeping it in good health is critical to our overall health. Eating right, exercising regularly, getting enough sleep and learning to deal with stress can help maintain healthy glowing skin- as can establishing good-skin habits like washing morning and night, hydrating regularly and using a sunscreen ever say.

Getting your skin into shape start with these baseline good-health requirements:

1. Catch enough sleep. Getting enough shut eye gives the skin's cells a chance to regenerate. You need at least eight hours of sleep a night. Sleep deprivation stresses the body, and being fatigued can worsen skin problems like acne and leave you with a lackluster complexion.

2. Practice proper skin care. Establish good-skin habits, like removing makeup daily with a gentle cleanser, exfoliating dead skin cells two to three times weekly, using a moisturizer when skin feels dry and wearing a sunscreen every day.

3. Exercise regularly. You need to get physically active. Exercise for at last 30 minutes a day to relieve stress and increase all-over body conditioning. "Exercise boosts circulation and keeps oxygen and nutrients flowing to the skin, giving it a fresh, radiant and glowing look", says bicoastal germatologist Karyn Grossman, M.D.

4. Eat right. A balanced diet rich in fruits and vegetables can help keep skin glowing and radiant. Though research has yet to show link between eating junk food and developing skin problems, what you eat does affect the health of your body and your skin.

Aim to eat plenty of good-for-you foods like whole grains, fruits and vegetables, all of which are chock-full of skin-essential nutrients. They'll boost the skin's ability to fend off problems.

A diet rich in vitamins and minerals and omega-3 fatty acids is particularly important. "Consuming foods like citrus, berries and orange or red vegetables, as well as salmon, tuna, walnuts and flax seeds (which contain heart-healthy omega-3 fatty acids), helps form the skin's lipid layer and hold moisture", explains Alan M. Dattner, M.D., director of Integrative Medicine & Dermatology in New Rochelle, N.Y.

5. Hydrate by Drinking plenty of water. Water helps fuel the nutrient-bearing circulatory system, which nourishes skin and hair. You need at least 11 cups of hydrating fluids (from a combined intake of food and liquids) every day.

"It's not possible to have a good glowing skin if you don't get enough water", explains Mary Lupo, M.D., associate clinical professor of dermatology at Tulane University Medical School in New Orleans. "When you're dehydrated, your skin is one of the first organs to show it". Eating fruit is an easy way to get nutrients- and help meet your daily water requirements.

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