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1. Exercise for healthy skin
Exercise is one of the secrets to healthy your skin. Daily regular and quantitative exercise can promote skin metabolism. Restore the elasticity of your skin, and keep pores unobstructed. When exercise, your body will release sweat and oil. That’s natural and free moisturizer. Proper excretion can remove internal dampness and moisturize our skin externally.
Among the types of multiple sports, TCM Ong suggests that you can choose aerobic exercise as your daily exercise. The characteristics of aerobic exercise are mainly bilateral movements of the body. The exercise intensity is relatively low, and it is a rhythmic repetitive movement that lasts for a long time. Most aerobic exercises do not requirements on age and physical fitness, so they can also be used as family activities. Adults and children can practice together, especially office workers, housewives and frequent drivers who often stand or sit for a long time, or who are less active.
Exercise 30-60 minutes daily, when the amount of exercise reaches sweating, flushing, body heat, rapid heartbeat and shortness of breath will do. It can stimulate the body’s cardiopulmonary capacity, promote blood circulation and metabolism throughout the body. Persist in exercising, the long-term effect shoud not be underestimated. Exercise can improve skin tone and luster of human body, restore skin elasticity, prevent aging and avoid clogged pores.
2. Diet for beautiful skin
If you want to have soft and beautiful skin, you must first supplement the nutrients your skin needs. Most of the human nutrition comes from food, so the daily diet menu is the key to skin beauty.
2.1Foods that are good for skin
Fresh vegetables, fruits, nuts
Fresh vegetables, fruits, and nuts are rich in nutrients and dietary fiber. Daily intake can supplement human nutrition, promote gastrointestinal peristalsis, help digestion, ensure smooth daily bowel movements, and prevent the accumulation of metabolites.
In addition, vegetables and fruits are rich in vitamins, and the oil contained in nuts is a good product for skin beautification, anti-aging and anti-wrinkle.
- Green vegetables, such as spinach, cabbage, potato seedlings, and Chinese cabbage.
- Red vegetables are mainly tomatoes, as well as red peppers and carrots.
- Yellow vegetables such as squash, sweet potatoes, carrots, and sweet corn.
- White vegetables, such as winter melon, lotus root, bamboo shoots, white radish.
- Black vegetables, such as eggplant, kelp, black mushrooms, black fungus.
- Green apple, fresh dates, cantaloupe, kiwi
- Red apples, strawberries, cherries
- Oranges, persimmons, tangerines
- Pear, grapefruit, banana, loquat, lemon
- blueberries, purple grapes
- Almonds, walnuts, hazelnuts, pine nuts, pecans, black sesame
Collagen
Adequate intake of collagen can keep the skin moisturized, smooth and plump, soft and elastic.
Foods with collagen include: trotters, pig skin, chicken skin, fish skin, tremella, peach resin and bird’s nest and other foods.
2.2Foods to avoid
Compared with eating more foods that are beneficial to the skin, it is also very important to eat less some foods that are harmful to the skin. Several foods can cause skin inflammation, and in severe cases, skin allergies and various skin diseases, such as spicy, high-salt, High sugar, frying, grilling, greasy, high saturated fat, dairy products, processed food, pickled food, and excessive alcohol and coffee, etc.
A high-sugar diet will lead to exuberant secretion of sebaceous glands, and excessive oil will lead to clogged pores and the formation of acne and pimples. People who intolerant to dairy products, eating too much milk, cheese, yogurt, cream, etc. Will have skin allergic inflammation reactions, so daily consumption of such foods must be cautious.
Conclusion
In our life, eating and exercising are just ordinary things, but over time, the food we eat and the unremitting exercise will actually have a great impact on our health, skin, and complexion. Therefore, TCM Ong advocates that “persisting in daily moderate exercise and choosing a high-quality diet can make our skin and viscera livelier and younger.”
**The content of the next issue is “From the outside to the inside, look at the relationship between the skin and the five internal organs according to traditional Chinese medicine. The skin can reflect the health status of the five internal organs of the human body”, so stay tuned and see you in the next issue.
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