By now you should know about the real benefits from protecting your skin from sun damage by using full spectrum sun blocks. But did you also know you can help protect your skin from the inside!!
According to John La Puma, MD, author of ChefMD’s Big Book of Culinary Medicine you can help protect your skin by eating antioxidant containing foods – pomegranates, tomatoes, dark chocolate, and tea.
The antioxidants in these foods work their way to the upper layers of your skin, boosting resistance to ultraviolet damage.
But don’t rely on this method exclusively – remember to slip on a shirt, slop on the sunblock and slap on a hat. And regular skin self-exams can reduce your risk of dying of melanoma by 44 percent! By getting to know all the freckles, moles, scars, age spots, birthmarks, and other lesions on your body, you can watch for any changes in size, shape, color, texture, and condition of any unique marks. Consult your doctor if you notice any raising of the marks, irregular changes in the border, and marked change in color [getting darker or lighter].
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Thanks for the shout-out!
A real benefit of just a little sun is the ready source of active Vitamin D…vitamin D3, which you make in just a few minutes on your arms and legs (sunscreen for your face, spf 45…plus the right foods).
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Best, and thanks,
JL
Agree that antioxidants food helps. Berries are one such food, especially blackberries, blueberries, blackcurrants contain phytochemicals which are powerful antioxidants. Antioxidants help to protect your body against damage caused by free radicals so they are very important for antiaging nutrition. Red grape is technically not a berry, but it has similar properties.
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free radicals are dangerous because they can cause cancer.;~*
Free radicals are very dangeous to health because they cause cancer.-:~
if you want to avoid getting skin cancer, sun protection is a necessitiy–,
i always use sun protection because i am afraid to get skin cancer-.*
free radicals are the number stuff that causes aging and kills our body slowly but surely.`’
some topical vitamins like B5 also provides Sun protection, *-`
free radicals are the number stuff that contributes to aging and cancer too;~:
as always, sun protection should never be neglegted because it helps UV damage of your skin`*,
free radicals can really damage your cells, that is why i always take antioxidants ‘~~