Acne Remedy - Eating Well to Reduce Acne and Promote Healthy Skin

The importance of healthy eating has never more prominent than today. With constant television, radio, newspaper and magazine adverts promoting the importance of healthy eating, and getting your 'five-a-day', you would have to be a total recluse living in a cave in the middle of nowhere to honestly say you have missed all the hype.

But even with all this constant bombardment about healthy eating, some people are still not getting the message, and may not even see, let alone eat, an orange or a piece of lettuce from the end of one month to another.

Teenagers seem to be especially resistant to the healthy eating message, choosing burger and fries over a healthy plate of meat and vegetables at mealtimes. Yet it is teenagers who would benefit the most from a regular intake of healthy fresh fruit and vegetables, especially with their hormones raging and their bodies needing essential nutrients that are not supplied by highly refined junk foods.

Not only is adequate nutrition very important for general good health, but the micronutrients obtained from whole foods are essential for repair and formation of new skin cells. Those looking for a good acne remedy should be especially mindful of this when choosing what food to put into their bodies. The old saying 'you are what you eat' is very true, so if you think about it, what you eat today you will be tomorrow. I don't know about you but I don't want to think of myself as being a greasy burger, fatty fries and a sugary milkshake!

If you are a parent of an acne sufferer, or you suffer from acne yourself, then try these following tips to help to reduce the severity of your acne attacks, and aid in laying down new, healthy skin cells.

Vitamin A is essential for healthy skin, and as you may already know carrots are a great source of natural vitamin A, are cheap to buy and very versatile to cook with.

If your teenager refuses to eat fresh vegetables, try getting sneaky with your vegetables!

Add finely grated carrots to your bolognaise sauce. The sauce disguises their presence, and you can prepare spaghetti bolognaise, lasagne, and other dishes with meat sauces without them knowing they are getting valuable added vitamins.

You can also sneak other health giving vegetables into meat sauces, try finely grated courgette, shredded leeks, and pureed cooked squash or pumpkin. My own son eats far more vegetables than he is aware of through using these sneaky tricks.

If you eat cake, try baking carrot cake. This is a delicious way of getting your vitamin A, and the carrot also helps to keep the cake moist and yummy!

When making sandwiches, add finely grated carrot for a bit of extra crunch, and a boost of extra vitamins.

Replace one stodgy meal a week with a large bowl of home-made minestrone soup with plenty of crusty bread and butter. Sneak in grated or finely diced carrots into other home made soup recipes.

The natural sweet taste of raw carrot can be appealing to teenagers, so if you can persuade them to eat salad, make sure there is plenty of shredded raw carrots on the side, or offer carrot sticks with tasty dips if they will not touch salad vegetables.

If you serve potatoes a lot with your main meal, try shredding or grating raw potatoes and carrots together, form into small patties and squeeze out any excess water from them. Shallow fry the patties in a little olive oil until cooked through, brown and crispy on the outside. Serve with your main meal, or is great for lunch with baked beans.

Try making your own milkshakes at home using fresh milk and naturally sweet fruits so you don't have to add any extra sugar. You can sneak in a spoonful of dried skimmed milk powder to add extra richness, plus an extra dose of protein and those all important vitamins. Adding the dried milk will also thicken up the shake to have a similar consistency to those from burger bars. You will find the shakes taste much better from home and your teenager may come to prefer yours!

These are just some tips to get you started, but there is a whole host of other helpful advice revealed by a team of experts in the management and treatment of acne in my new book, available for acne sufferers no matter what your age. See my Author Box for more details.

M Newbold is a prolific writer who enjoys writing about family life, health, fitness and sports. Get a free Acne mini ebook by visiting http://www.acne-home-remedies.weebly.com

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