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Beauty from within means you have to nourish your skin daily to improve skin elasticity. To promote healthy, hydrated and radiant skin you need good nutrition. When they say it’s what’s inside that counts they got it right. Structural support for the skin doesn’t come from pharmaceutical derived creams and lotions.

Age Related Skin Changers

Primarily women who start seeing changes in there skin are 35 plus. Skin care clients range from their late 20s to their 70s, with the biggest portion in their 40s. People are realizing to look good on the outside you have to be healthy on the inside.

What is important to skin health is antioxidants, hydration, good fats, and exercise. Potent antioxidant flavonoids protect the skin from free radicals that cause premature aging. For a natural glow and to reduce wrinkles vitamins, minerals and enzymes are needed. Collagen breaks down when there is chronic stress and a diet high in sugar.

Phytonutrients to the Rescue

When you think of beautiful skin, you have to think of nutrient dense foods. Resveratrol is becoming better known in the health and wellness circles, now it should be the first thing that comes to mind in the quest for beautiful skin. Consumers are searching for the elixir of youth and beauty, without realizing it is conveniently located in their garden. In fruits you will find high levels of skin anti-aging polyphenols, anti-inflammatory agents, elastin and collagen protection. All will neutralize free radicals from sun exposure, protect epidermal cells from sunburn damage, decrease breakdown of elastin, reduce the effects of sunburn and lighten dark pigmentation.

Fruits and vegetables have a good resume. Each one has their own unique ability to add beauty to your years. Tomatoes are rich in powerful antioxidants. Lycopene from tomato supports skin smoothness and helps maintain skin integrity when exposed to the sun. Red chili pepper contains capsaicin that improves circulation, artichoke is high in antioxidants which can protect the skin’s DNA and collagen, and artichoke extract is also a cleanser and detoxifies.

Beautiful Skin Tied To Health

When you think beauty you must think outside the bottle, jar, and tube. Cosmetic brand manufacturers are aware of the power of plants. They are using ingredients such as botanical ones to reposition their products. Skin care remains an important category in the global beauty market. They know you can’t avoid the unavoidable aging process. They search the world over for plants that may provide ways to reverse symptoms of environmental ageing such as fine lines, wrinkles, redness, and brown spots. Changes in the skin’s texture are a component of diet and there is little in those jars that can slow, stop or reverse the look of aging skin.

What skin needs is the right supply of material to repair and slow the loss of collagen. Amino acids, antioxidants, enzymes are what will give the cells what they need.

Hear is some brain candy. Breast cancer’s illogical treatment and the untold suffering is part of the culture embracing standard treatment protocols.

Powerhouse Effect of Natural Plant Compounds

Breast cancer cells-even the most aggressive type-succumbed after treatments with peach and plum extracts in lab tests at Texas AgriLife Research. The cancerous cells keeled over, but the normal cells were not harmed.

ArgrlLife Research scientist say two phenolic compounds are responsible for the cancer cell demise in the study. This study was published in the Journal of Agriculture and Food Chemistry. The phenols are organic compounds that occur in fruits. They are slightly acidic and may be associated with the traits such as aroma, taste or color.

“It was a differential effect which is what you’re looking for because in current cancer treatment with chemotherapy, the substance kills all cells, so it is really tough on the body.” said Dr. David Byrne, AgriLife Research plant breeder who studies stone fruit. “Here. There is a five-fold difference in the toxic intensity. You can put at a level where it will kill the cancer cells-the very aggressive ones-and not the normal ones.”

According to the National Cancer Institute, there were 192,370 new cases of breast cancer in females and 1,910 cases in males in 2009. That year, 40,170 women and 440 men died from breast cancer. The World Health Organization reports that breast cancer accounts for 16 percent of the cancer deaths of women globally. Cisneros-Zevallos, an AgriLife Research food scientist, said the team compared normal cells to two types of breast cancer, including the most aggressive type. The cells were treated with an extract from two commercial varieties, the “Rich Lady” peach and the “Black Splendor” plum.

“A closer look at the extracts determined that two specific phenolic acid Components-chlorogenic and neochlorogenic-were responsible for killing the cancer cells while not affecting the normal cells,” Cisneros-Zevallos said.

The two compounds are very common in fruits, the researchers said, but the stone fruits such as plums and peaches have especially high levels. “So this is very, very attractive from the point of view of being an alternative to typical chemotherapy which kills normal cells along with cancerous ones,” Byrne added.

The team said laboratory tests also confirmed that the compounds prevented cancer from growing in animals given the compounds.

Breakthrough

This isn’t a unprecedented breakthrough, nor is it a new way to manage cancer. Antioxidant powerhouse effects of fruits and vegetables have been proven over and over. All approved drugs fail to prevent or treat many conditions satisfactory. This latest discovery was here all along, right under our noses at the grocery produce department.

Plants not only have antioxidant potential, they are unrivalled at defending us from free radicals. The beneficial pigmented plants transport life giving substances for cellular health.

Broad-spectrum benefits of plant food keeps the doctor away. Perhaps, that is why most medical professionals will tell you diet has nothing to do with the condition.

Medical Industry

It could be said that  the medical industry is incompetent, but they are very competent on fiscal matters. The pharmaceutical industry is doing well monetarily.

The medical monopoly increased regulation of our health care system has just about done away with free enterprise in the health and wellness arena. This giant conglomerate outperforms in the cash department, but it shows a deficit in the healing department.

Breast cancers illogical treatment, includes destroying immunity, causing heart problems, lost of hair, throwing up, lost of memory, and fatigue. This is without counting future problems that will not be attributed to the toxic chemicals, and radiation.

Holy guacamole or should we say whole food guacamole, is a good term for a super food. The avocado is packed with nutrients. Today avocados are eaten more than apple pie. That is good news considering that it is low in calories, and has no cholesterol, no sodium, and has a mono and polyunsaturated fat content.

Avocado

Avocados are a fruit, and fruitarians do include these in their diets. They are not sweet, so it can be used by diabetics. The nutrient content is impressive. It is a source of vitamin K, dietary fiber, potassium, folic acid, vitamin B6, vitamin C, cooper, carotenoids, and tocopherols, (vitamin E).         

In a laboratory study published in the Journal of Nutritional Biochemistry, an extract of avocado containing these carotenoids, and topopherols, inhibited the growth of both androgen-dependent and androgen-independent prostate cancer cells.

Monounsaturated fatty acids including oleic acid have been shown to offer significant protection against breast cancer. Oleic acid has shown promise in its ability to significantly decrease cholesterol.  Potassium is a mineral that helps regulate blood pressure.

Diets containing foods that are a good source of potassium and low in sodium reduce the risk of both high blood pressure and stroke.

This could be the perfect green pill, a small but potent concentrated source of  nutrients. This fruit provides potent protection against many of today’s common ailments.

Guacamole

Guacamole is one way than avocado finds its way into main stream diets. Between salsa and guacamole the American public is eating their full of avocados. There are more than 500 varieties of avocados grown worldwide.

Hass avocado the most readily available and most common was found to contain the highest content of lutein that surpassed the amount in some of the most popular fruits.

Raw Avocado

The nice thing about avocados is they are eaten raw for the most part. This is on the menu of many raw food aficionados. It is used in blended green smoothies, eaten in salads and used for snacks. In fact is a beloved fruit ask David Wolfe, also known as David Avocado Wolfe.

A raw vegan diet consists of fruits, vegetables, avocado, nuts and seeds. Avocados provide a way to have highly digestible fat in a vegetarian diet. Avocados are available year round. Since they supply vitamins A, B-complex, C, E, H, K, and folic acid, plus the minerals magnesium, copper, iron, calcium, and potassium it would seem a wise choice.

Besides being an alkalizing food. It is highly versatile and can be used in many recipes. With avocados a little goes a long way. It doesn’t take much time or effort to include this green gem in your eating plan.