Vitamin for Healthy Skin

Everyone likes to take care of themselves and their health. You also take care of your skin. Nutrition is very important for skin care. Let’s have a journey through vitamins for your healthy and beautiful skin…
Skin is the body’s largest organ. It covers a person from head to toe. Skin is waterproof. That is why water beads up on the skin when a person showers or swims. Skin protects whole body from dust and microorganisms. Besides helping to shape a patient’s self image, the skin carry outs many physical activities. For example, it protects internal body structures from the environment and potential pathogens. It also regulates body temperature and homeostasis and serves as an organ of feelings and excretion.

The skin covers and cares the body. It helps to regulate body temperature and gets rid of waste products through sweat. It is thin-skinned to touch. In the presence of sunlight the skin synthesizes vitamin D. Vitamin D works with the minerals calcium and phosphorous to form strong bones and teeth. The skin also produces the brown pigment melanin, which gives color to the skin. Large amounts of melanin are produced in naturally dark people.

Nutrition is very important for skin care. What you eat is reflected on your face and body. Basic skin care is a daily matter, beginning with using natural soaps when you bathe. Skin care products made from chemicals may be cheaper, but remember that those chemicals will be absorbed into the bloodstream. Though the amount may be small, it is the cumulative effect of the chemicals that damages your health over the long run. If your body has a toxicity problem, you will notice the difference when you move to natural products on your body

Vitamins are very important for healthy skin. The best nutritional recommendation to ensure healthy skin is to eat a well balanced diet. The western diet generally contains the essential vitamins A (retinol), B3 (Niacin), C, D.

Vitamin A helps to control the rate of keratinisation in the skin and so deficiency of this vitamin can result in dry skin. Sources of vitamin A are in fish liver oils, hen’s egg, butter, ghee and milk.

The vitamins B are essential to healthy skin. Niacin (B3), pyridoxine (B6), riboflavin, and thiamine deficiencies are all associated with skin disorders. If the diet is deficient in vitamin B3 a disease called pellagra can occur; one of its features is dermatitis. Vitamin B6 is needed for cell division and protein synthesis both important skin functions. Biotin (B-complex vitamin) supports skin health as it helps the body synthesize fats and proteins, and utilize carbohydrates. Sources of vitamin B are in dried yeast rice polishing, wheat germ, whole cereals, pulses, nuts, oilseeds, liver, dark green leafy vegetables and milk, etc.

Vitamin C contains water soluble important for healthy skin. It is required by the body to produce collagen and deficiency of this vitamin can also lead to dermatitis. Sources of vitamin C are in drumsticks and their leaves, amla, bitter gourd, guava, sprouted gram, citrus fruits such as oranges and lemons, papaya, and tomato.

Vitamin D if formed in the skin by the action of ultra-violet rays in sunlight.

Alcohol is not harmful to the skin. It also dehydrates the skin by drawing water from the tissues and robbing of the body of vitamin B and C, which are required for a healthy skin.

Vitamin E holds some promise for anti aging healthy skin, but the research is still limited, and it is too early to draw conclusions. We know very little about which types and concentrations of vitamin E might provide anti aging benefits. At this point, it is anybody’s guess whether any commercial vitamin E.

For a healthy skin all these above vitamins should be taken compulsorily.

By Jayashree Pakhare
Published: 3/3/2008

Source: www.buzzle.com