Nutrition: Food for wrinkles

Staying Young does not just care from the outside, but also (and especially) from the inside.

For he who eats a balanced diet, the body presents a whole firework of life energy in the form of vitamins, minerals and trace elements. The tastes of the skin. Tighter it is, for example by vitamin C. It protects cells by trapping free radicals, and helps to produce new collagen for connective tissue. Since the body produce vitamin C themselves can not, we must take it on the diet for us. Rich in vitamin C include buckthorn, citrus fruits, currants, peppers, cabbage and potatoes all. Incidentally, stress, alcohol and smoking are major vitamin-C-robbers.

Red-radical scavenger

Nothing beats a nice glass of red wine in the evening? This was also the skin - as long as it remains in a glass. Because red wine contains so-called anthocyanins, water-soluble plant pigments. They usually protect plants from excessive ultraviolet light and act as antioxidants. This power they develop in the body. Incidentally, all the deep red and purple vegetables and fruits such as blueberries, raspberries, blackberries, beets, eggplant contain this fantastic cell protectors.

Putz troops enzymes

Without enzymes in our body runs on anything. They regulate metabolism, immune or endocrine systems. And they can cleave proteins and are thus ideal wrinkle. For a mixture of old forms in the connective tissue proteins and cholesterol elongated crusts, leading to wrinkles. These enzymes dissolve easily contaminated by the inside. Plenty of it stuck in exotics such as pineapples, papayas, kiwis, figs, mangoes, but also in carrots, leeks, onions and fennel.

Good to know: Vitamin pills can not replace real fruit and vegetables. Because of the nature of the mix of nutrients is extremely complex, many ingredients, such as phytochemicals act only in combination with others.