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Eat your way to beauty - Your guide to a healthy skin

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We have tried everything to deal with our fussy skin, including expensive facials, lotions, antibiotics and other painful procedures. The umpteen cosmetic products designed, from natural extracts to chemical concoctions for the perfect skin were just not enough. It was clearly time to look beyond remedies that were merely skin-deep and get to the root of the matter. What is a skin type diet? How does it work? Let us walk through  how a diet for healthy skin works. Certain factors regulate skin characteristics – lipids, the natural moisturizing factor (NMF), sebum, Hyaluronic Acid (HA) and Aquaporin (AQP). Each has a different role to play for your skin. The NMF is responsible for hydration, desquamation and plasticity of skin. A well-balanced NMF production and secretion would require intake of proteins, lipids and water. Sebum, on the other hand, is responsible for the oil secretion from the sebaceous glands onto the skin – it con...

Food Trends 2019 | Healthier Food Choices | Pristine Organics

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Take control of your diet for a healthier, happier you! A glance at the trending food blogs that everyone is reading this year tells us what people are choosing to eat in 2019. These include high protein foods created in labs; products infused with probiotics; ‘new ‘ finds like coconut oil and ghee are being incorporated into all kinds of foods, including chocolates; and of course, fusion meals that are visual delights are in – for the gram! Many of these choices are dictated by their presumed benefits For example, people are focusing on high protein foods for the brain; probiotics is in the limelight for its digestive properties, as gut health and digestion is becoming a cause for concern; and oils like coconut and ghee bring with it the promise of beauty, smoother, clearer skin and so on. Eating local  is becoming fashionable too. Let me rephrase that. It is  ancient traditional food  that is in the spotlight, but the irony is that the further off it trav...