If you’re wondering why your skin isn’t reaching the level of radiance you want, maybe you need to look deeper into the food you’re putting into your body.

As they say, you are what you eat and what goes in will come out.

Here are 7 tips to munch your way to lasting luscious skin…

Cut down on meat and dairy.
By consuming such food, you are also taking in a lot of the hormones that were injected into cows and chicken to make them grow faster and bigger. I know it’s hard to change life-long eating habits, but if you are suffering acne and eczema that won’t go away, you may want to consider this option.

Eat good fats.
Keep wrinkles and papery skin at bay by noshing on Nature’s moisturizers. Make your cells plump and supple through omega-fatty acids. If mercury in fish (salmon and mackerel) unnerves you, walnuts, avocados, flax seed, and olive oil are good plant-based sources.

Load up on vitamin C and silica.
These two building blocks of collagen are necessary for keeping skin elastic. Fruit and veggies high in vitamin C: peppers, broccoli, kiwi, strawberries, mangoes, avocados, onions, collard greens, and all citrus fruit. Now, cucumbers are high in silica so crunching on these are great for you, too!

A perfect summer recipe is a simple mix of strawberries and cucumbers drizzled with a bit of lemon juice. Can you tell this is sooooo yummy for your taste buds and your skin?

Soak up vitamin A to renew skin
Vitamin A is necessary to renew and grow skin cells, so carrots, mangoes, spinach and apricots are great sources.

Protect your skin from the sun
Tomatoes and carrots have lycopene that is a natural sun screen and shields your skin from harmful rays. Wrinkles, be gone!

Keep hydrated
You probably see this point in most health articles but really there is a lot of truth in it. It’s all too easy to think you are drinking enough fluids — what with coffee and tea breaks or diet sodas. But nothing beats pure water or fresh juice.

If you don’t like the blandness of water, try squeezing a lemon or lime into a large glass and it will be completely transformed. Or treat yourself to a San Pellegrino or Evian to quench your thirst and bathe your skin cells with hydration.

Avoid too much refined sugar.
Sugar degrades the elastin and collagen in your skin faster. I wrote a whole post right here about how sugar makes you look old, so I won’t repeat myself.

Switch to dark chocolate.
It’s not really chocolate itself that causes pimples, but dairy does. I know dairy companies with deep pockets run massive campaigns about why it’s good for you but hormone-riddled milk in chocolate is the cause of flare-ups.

But don’t spoil the party of life by cutting out chocolate, just switch to dark ones or vegan chocolate.

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