Turn Back the Clock on Your Age: How to Look and Feel Younger by @TheresaAlbert

You know how they say, “You are what you eat”? Well nothing could be more true when it comes to your body and aging. There are a few things that you are probably doing that are making you look older than you are. Some of them affect the outside, some of them affect the inside, and all of them are easy to change.

Simple Diet Changes to Help You Look and Feel Younger

Take a Break from Booze

Alcohol dilates the capillaries in the face and can cause a permanent mottled look.

What to do: Drink as little alcohol as possible and give your body some rest once in a while. Remove it altogether for at least a few days in a row each month. Splash cold water on your face if you are a “flusher” to bring the inflammation down.

Shun Sugar

Sugar, and even worse High Fructose Corn Sugar, is by far the single most overused “food” in our food roster. For starters, it is the #1 contributor to obesity and nothing makes you look older than being overweight.

What to do: Simply removing sugar (especially liquid calories) will remove a few pounds from your belly. The secondary benefit is the reduced oxidative damage and inflammation that sugar imposes on your cells.

Ban the Bad Fats

Saturated and trans Fats are inflammatory and therefore contribute to a sallow look of the skin and dull hair, not to mention the damage they do to your insides.

What to do: Skin needs the healthy fats of nuts, seeds, avocados (recipe) and whole grains to repair and glow. Avoid all deep fried foods, reduce saturated fat from meat and increase the good fats.

Stay Hydrated

Without water, every cell in the body is less plump. This appears on the skin first contributing to the saggy and sallow look of age.

What to do: Drink water, at least one litre each day on top of your usual routine of consuming lots of high water foods like watermelon, cucumber, berries and lettuce. (That is your usual routine, right?)