What if we told you that instead of splurging on beauty treatments, you could simply choose the right foods and nourish your skin to get the same or better results! Here’s introducing the most sought after Vitamin that comes to your rescue as the ticking time shows up on your appearance!
Know your Vitamin:
Vitamin E is a group of fat-soluble compounds having a fundamental role in the metabolism of all cells. Vitamin E cannot be lost by cooking in water but can be lost by deep fat frying.
Vitamin E is the most important antioxidant; which means they can protect cells and tissues from damage caused by free radicals, produced by pollution, stress, ageing, illness, smoking, overexposure to U.V rays and other lifestyle factors.
Owing to its most important role of slowing cell damage, Vitamin E is popular for the following reasons:
- Improves hair and skin health.
- Prevents heart disease and arthritis.
- Builds immunity.
- Has anti-inflammatory properties, protects against skin cancer and slows ageing.
- Delays age-related memory loss, incidences of Alzheimer’s disease and Dementia.
- Delays age-related vision loss and Cataracts.
- Improves muscle strength.
Deficiency of Vitamin E is seen in newborn premature infants, food faddists and patients with fat malabsorption, liver ailments. It is usually presented as muscle weakness, low immunity, visual disturbances and unsteady gait.
Vitamin E is usually obtained from plant sources, richest being vegetable oils like wheat germ, safflower, sunflower, corn, soyabean oil, nuts like almonds, peanuts, hazelnuts, sunflower seeds, vegetables and fruits like spinach, broccoli and avocado.
So go to the Salon to pamper yourself if you must, but now you know that you need not rely on these artificial treatments, as the secret to your youthful glow can come right from your kitchen!
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