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Top 10 foods to avoid for beautiful skin
from: Dr. RichardDr. Richard
Dermatologist Dr. Richard Asarch has taken skin nutrition to a new plane in
The Beautiful Skin Diet and done it in a fashion that's easy to understand and
readily applied to our busy lives. "The primary goal in The Beautiful Skin Diet
is to emphasize the importance of eating foods that benefit your health while
avoiding those which are harmful," explains Asarch. "Beginning a lifestyle of
healthy eating allows one to choose foods and recipes rather than requiring a
strict adherence to a specific diet. If one can achieve this primary goal, then
modifying it to lose weight, for example, can be accomplished with very little
effort." Combining research, theory and practical application via mouthwatering
recipes developed by the talented, European-trained Chef Neal Mendel, Asarch
provides the answers health-, fitness- and beauty-conscious Americans seek. The
following is excerpted from The Beautiful Skin Diet.
With all of the choices, it is difficult to narrow a list down to the top 10
foods to avoid. How did these foods warrant inclusion in my list? The choices
were based on their interaction with the mechanisms of harmful, aging effects on
the skin. Some have high levels of saturated fats, others cause sudden and wide
sugar-load swings in the body with resulting insulin responses, while others
have harmful levels of fatty acids.
Sources of protein are essential to good health, but those which contain high
levels of saturated far and omega-6 fatty acids may do more harm than good.
Ground beef, sausage and bacon have a very high fat-to-protein ratio--exactly
the opposite of the type of protein you should choose. They are also prepared
utilizing high-temperature cooking, creating additional harmful byproducts for
your skin.
Saturated fats are known to harm the cardiovascular system, but recent
studies have also shown that a diet high in saturated fat increases the
incidence of skin aging and wrinkling. Trans-fatty acids have extremely harmful
effects on skin health and appearance.
Carbohydrates involve a wide variety of foods that often do not come to mind
when one thinks of carbohydrates. Ones that cause sudden, high blood glucose
levels (e.g. raisins, pasta or baked beans) create conditions that have been
shown to initiate inflammatory and damaging effects on our skin. Although most
legumes have beneficial effects, canned baked beans are prepared with brown
sugar or molasses, which negatively affect glucose levels. Also,
high-temperature or prolonged cooking of beans can break down their cell walls.
This releases simple sugars which are easier to digest and subsequently raise
blood glucose levels.
In general, less-refined foods containing intact whole grains are digested
slower and, in turn, are slowly absorbed into the bloodstream. This results in
lower blood sugar levels and less insulin secretion and, thus, a lower glycemic
load. Whole grain's nutrient-rich layers have not been removed by refining and,
therefore, have more fiber and other micronutrients. A handful of recipes in The
Beautiful Skin Diet include breads or pastas, so it is important to use whole
grain varieties. These recipes also contain proteins and other foods which have
an overall effect of lowering the glycemic load.
The table below shows foods to avoid. If I had to pick the number one food to
avoid, it would be one of America's favorites--the French fry. It has it all: a
carbohydrate that causes a rapid rise in blood glucose, fried at high
temperature in, usually, trans-fatty acids and, due to cooking a carbohydrate at
such high temperature, contains acrylamide, a substance believed to cause
cancer'. Don't forget to avoid the French fly's close relative, the potato chip.
It isn't any better.
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Foods to Avoid</b>
Protein Fats Carbohydrates
Ground beef Trans-fatty acids Veggies Fruits Dairy
Sausage (found in
Bacon partially French fries Raisins Full-fat
hydrogenated ice cream
vegetable oils)
butter
Protein Fats Carbohydrates
Ground beef Trans-fatty acids Beans & Grains
Sausage (found in legumes
Bacon partially
hydrogenated Baked beans Pasta
vegetable oils)
butter
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