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Tuesday, March 12, 2013

Causes and Prevention of Premature Aging

Knowing the causes of premature aging make us able to do prevention on the signs of premature aging.

There are many ways to delay the signs of aging, such as through some type of surgery. Whereas the core of prevention signs of aging just by pampering skin structure, collagen and elastin fibers that make your skin always looks smooth.

Causes of Aging

The signs of aging such as wrinkles mainly triggered by various factors such as age, sun exposure, smoking, genetic, diet, such as the consumption of foods high in carbohydrates and unsaturated fats. All the factors that contribute scrape collagen and elastin fibers that keep the skin to stay smooth and elastic.

When analyzing the skin of 453 women from Australia, Greece, and Sweden, the dermatologist found that healthy eating was not able to overcome skin damage caused by smoking or unprotected skin from the sun.

Aging Prevention

Even so, the dermatologist is also recommended some foods that should be taken and avoided in order to prevent the signs of premature aging.

The food should be consumed the olive oil, low-fat milk, water and tea, fruit and vegetables, eggs, and nuts. The foods that should be avoided include butter, pastries, soft drinks, milk fat, and potatoes.

The following are several ways that you can apply on eating patterns in order to prevent the signs of aging appear early.

a. Eat more fruits and vegetables
When the British research team to monitor diet and wrinkles as much as 4025 middle-aged women, they found that foods rich in vitamin C can reduce wrinkles appear earlier to 36 percent. Antioxidant vitamins are also able to protect skin from free radicals that are damaging oxygen molecules in collagen.

Consuming much food vitamin C is very easy. Try to multiply eating berries or orange juice for breakfast, red peppers and wine for lunch and broccoli for dinner.

b. Eat salmon
Salmon is rich in omega-3 fatty acids was previously declared to reduce the incidence of the signs of premature aging by 25 percent. In addition to salmon, other foods are also rich in omega 3 that is walnuts, canola oil, fish oil capsules, and flaxseed.

c. Drinking hot chocolate with no sugar
After investigation, an antioxidant substance called epicatechin and catechin contained in chocolate can protect the skin from skin damage from sun exposure and encouraging the circulation of the skin cells.

d. Avoid white bread and sugar
Every 50 grams of carbohydrates that we consume every day increases the risk of wrinkling of the skin by 28 percent. That is probably because of too many molecules of sugar and protein glycation which will damage the collagen and elastin.