More on Skin, Plus Junk Food and Obesity And Yet Another Fat to Worry About
I am still suffering from PTSD after the purchase of a magnifying mirror for my bathroom and am thinking of starting a support group around lip lines and wattle, but until that gets going, here are some ideas about keeping what skin we have left healthy and rosy. (Too rosy is not good, however, and could indicate rosacea, allergies or an excess of chemicals in the body.). Maybe we can even retard the appearance of that lovely Egyptian mummy look by cleaning up our diet and our life. I am reminded now of what Dr. David Hawkins likes to say in all of his lectures. "The path is straight and narrow, short is the time, Gloria in Excelsis Deo." We really can't treat our bodies like we did at 30, 40 or even 50. There just isn't much room anymore for nutritional or physical mistakes as well as the emotional and spiritual mistakes we could clean up.
First of all what's bad for your skin? Smoking is the worst. The smoke with its 50+ chemicals wafts directly up onto the skin of your face creating lip lines, eye lines, and producing what we all know to be that typical "face of a smoker." Alcohol is drying. Trans fats kill you and also harden your skin. Refined, processed foods and especialy processed table salt are bad for skin and dairy isn't so good either unless you buy a share in a cow and get good raw milk.
Keep the six organ systems healthy. Remember? Liver, Kidney, Adrenal, Thyroid, Large Intestine, Small Intestine and then the additional Lymph. Let's start with your bowels. Pure, flawless skin is a reflection of clean intestines, so keep that moving well with fiber and maybe some additional laxatives or prunes as needed. Then there is your hardworking and generally ignored liver: Any green food is good for that so eat lots of dark green leafies like kale, chard, bok choy, broccoli, spinach and take daily extra green food like Greens First or Boku.
Let me make sure you don't need thyroid and adrenal help via supplements and if you feel you are stressed out, read the handout about adrenal burnout at, www.drbea.com and do what that says to do. You already know that the kidneys like good pure water with maybe a pinch of sea salt (the grey Celtic kind) in it and your small intestine loves digestive enzymes. If you have undigested food running around in your body, your face will show the toxic waste it produces. Make sure also that you don't have excess fungus-molds-yeast parasites, hidden viruses or bacteria or heavy metals and chemicals. They will all age the body.
What else is good for your skin? Coconut oil. Eat a couple of teaspoons per day. Get plenty of other good oils in your diet with EVOO, Yes or a good pure fish oil. If you can eat seaweed (I can't), as that is awfully good for your skin, too. Try fermented foods, like kefir, good yogurt and probiotics. See my handout on fermented foods on the website.
Reduce your stress, as that causes frown lines. Meditate, as that relaxes your face. Bruce Lipton in his groundbreaking book on epigenetics (The Biology of Belief) has proven that your genetic expression is ruled by your mind and your emotions, not your parents, so being able to maintain a more positive outlook can certainly influence the expression of your genes, thus directly impacting how you age. Therefore, your Mom's wrinkles or lack thereof have nothing to do with the condition of your current face. It's yours and yours alone.
Junk food and Obesity and Addiction: Interesting study reported at the annual meeting of neuroscientists last October. Junk food elicits addictive behavior in rats similar to that caused by heroin. Pleasure centers in the brains of rats addicted to high-fat, high calorie diets becomes less responsive as bingeing wears on, making the rats consume more and more food. They used unlimited amounts of HoHos, sausage, pound cake, bacon and cheesecake to experiment on the addicted rats who seemed to want more and more and more and were never satisfied and became compulsive eaters and obese. After only 5 days on this crappy food, the rats showed a "profound reduction" in the pleasure centers of their brains, needing more just to feel good. Let's stop right now feeding our children anything that resembles the poor addicted rat's daily fare, as the researchers also found that the reward pathway deficits "persisted for weeks" after the rats stopped eating the junk food. (Science News, 11/24/09)
Interesterified Fats: Food manufacturers are trying to pull a fast one on us. (Quel surprise.) They know we are all on to them about trans fats being really bad, so now they have something called interesterified fats which are equally as bad but don't have to be put on the label. If you eat no processed foods at all, i.e. anything in a bag, box, jar, can or wrapper, then you have no worries, but if you are still plucking seductive boxes of cookies and crackers off the shelves in the middle aisles of the grocery store, then you are in danger. The lipid molecules of interesterified fats have been manipulated just like the trans fats, but in a little different way. Nonetheless, these "new" fats will cause cell damage and the bad part is, you may not know when you are eating them because manufacturers do not have to put the word interesterified on their labels. Read the whole article at www.mercola.com. Put the word Interesterified Fats into his search engine and you should bring up a couple of articles.
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