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🔑 Keywords: Health Food Therapy · Food Effects on Skin<br>Modern science reveals that skin smoothness and radiance correlate closely with hyaluronic acid enzyme levels in the dermis, which in turn relates to estrogen secretion. Scientists recently discovered that increased ovarian estrogen secretion binds with specific receptors in the dermis, promoting hyaluronic acid enzyme formation. This enzyme enhances skin absorption of water, trace elements, and vitamins, resulting in abundant moisture, minerals, and vitamins in the skin—making it soft, smooth, and radiant. So how can diet improve skin beauty?<br>(1) Moderate Water Intake. Body fluids contain 72% water; adult body water ranges from 58% to 67%. Dehydration leads to dry skin, reduced sebum secretion, loss of elasticity, and wrinkles. Teenagers should drink about 1200ml of water daily.<br>(2) Regular Intake of Vitamin-Rich Foods. Vitamins prevent skin aging and maintain smooth, moist skin. Japanese researchers found vitamin E plays a crucial role in anti-aging by neutralizing free radicals. Vitamin E also prevents lipofuscin deposition in the skin. Lipofuscin formation is linked to peroxidized lipids. Foods rich in vitamin E include cabbage, sunflower oil, rapeseed oil, etc. Vitamins A and B2 are also essential for smooth, fine skin. Deficiency in vitamin A causes dry, rough, flaky skin; lack of vitamin B2 results in white corners of mouth, cracked lips, peeling, and pigmentation. Foods rich in vitamin A include animal liver, fish liver oil, milk, cream, eggs, and orange-red vegetables and fruits. Foods rich in vitamin B2 include liver, kidney, heart, eggs, and milk.<br>(3) Increase Iron-Rich Foods. Radiant, rosy skin requires ample blood supply. Iron is a primary component of hemoglobin; thus, consume more iron-rich foods like animal liver, egg yolks, seaweed, and nori.<br>(4) Boost Intake of Collagen and Elastin-Rich Foods. Collagen plumps up cells, making skin fuller and reducing wrinkles; elastin enhances skin elasticity, keeping it smooth and firm. Foods rich in collagen and elastin include pig trotters, animal tendons, and pork skin.<br>(5) Pay Attention to Alkaline Foods. Common foods like fish, meat, poultry, eggs, and grains are physiologically acidic. Excessive acid intake raises lactic acid and uric acid levels in body fluids and blood. When organic acids aren’t excreted promptly, they erode sensitive epidermal cells, causing loss of smoothness and elasticity. To neutralize acidity, consume more alkaline foods such as apples, pears, oranges, and vegetables.<br>Essential Vitamins for Skin Health<br>Whitening, anti-aging, and wrinkle prevention are women’s top skincare goals. Though numerous cosmetics exist (e.g., alpha hydroxy acid, salicylic acid, retinoic acid, fish protein, grape seed extract), vitamins remain crucial in modern skin health. Among them, vitamins A, C, and E are most effective for beautiful skin.<br>1. Vitamin A: Found abundantly in dark green vegetables and fruits, organ meats, liver, egg yolks, margarine, milk, and fish liver oil. However, vitamin A must be converted in the body before use. For skin, it regulates epidermal and keratinocyte metabolism, protects epithelial and mucosal surfaces, preventing bacterial invasion. Thus, vitamin A is widely used clinically for anti-aging, wrinkle reduction, fading spots, smoothing skin, and preventing skin cancer. Excessive intake may cause headache, nausea, vomiting, and bone abnormalities—especially dangerous for pregnant women, requiring strict dosage control to avoid fetal malformations.<br>2. Vitamin E: Abundant in cereals, wheat germ oil, cottonseed oil, leafy greens, egg yolks, nuts, meat, and dairy products. Vitamin E reduces oxidation of vitamin A and polyunsaturated fatty acids, controls cellular oxidation, promotes wound healing, inhibits sunburn reactions, and suppresses cancer development. Combined use of vitamins E and C enhances their effects synergistically. As a fat-soluble vitamin, long-term overdose may cause venous thrombosis, pulmonary embolism, and elevated blood lipids—use with caution.<br>3. Vitamin C: Its whitening effect stems from anti-inflammatory action, preventing sun damage. Vitamin C also accelerates wound healing. Deficiency impairs connective tissue function, increasing vulnerability to free radical damage. Yet, vitamin C is a key antioxidant repairing such damage. Hence, it’s widely used in anti-aging and sun damage repair.<br>These three vitamins share similar functions and complement each other—being excellent antioxidants that clear harmful free radicals formed after sun exposure.<br>Beauty Foods You Should Know<br>Beauty is not just psychological—it also impacts physical health. To achieve a lovely appearance, besides daily skincare, regulating hormones through proper food and medicine is highly effective. With rising demand for female beauty, many long-forgotten beauty remedies are being rediscovered. Below are some beauty food recipes recognized by modern medicine, for reference by beauty enthusiasts.<br>Golden Honey: Honey is hailed as "nature’s most perfect nutritional food," capable of longevity. Regular consumption keeps skin soft and smooth, prevents cracking. It also boosts hemoglobin levels, giving a rosy complexion. Now, pollen—the raw material of honey—is gaining global attention for its beauty benefits. Replacing beverages with honey water can bring endless charm to your skin.<br>Red Goji Berries: Ancient saying goes: "Goji preserves youthful beauty." Li Shizhen’s Compendium of Materia Medica notes that drinking goji wine long-term prevents aging and maintains youth. Modern research shows goji berries contain abundant carotene, vitamins A, B1, B2, C, niacin, phosphorus, iron, and other nourishing substances. As a beauty remedy, goji can be soaked in wine or made into "Goji-Longan Paste" with longan flesh, rock sugar, and honey. It can also be combined with other foods into medicinal dishes—e.g., Goji and Chinese yam stewed with pig brain, goji and red dates stewed with eggs, goji chicken stew, goji sheep brain stew.<br>Light Yellow Angelica: Tyrosinase in the body produces melanin responsible for freckles, dark spots, and age spots. Higher enzyme activity leads to earlier and more numerous spots. Modern studies prove angelica water solution strongly inhibits tyrosinase activity, thus having anti-aging and beautifying effects. Boil angelica, collect the juice, and brew it into angelica wine with rice or flour. Angelica can also be stewed with lamb, astragalus, and codonopsis into angelica lamb soup. It can be used in various medicinal dishes. For ordinary people, take about 5g angelica daily, steep in boiling water, mix with a little honey as tea—very convenient.<br>Black Sesame Seeds: Black sesame seeds are rich in unsaturated fatty acids and vitamin E, highly beneficial for delaying skin aging. They can be made into Wu Ma San. Preparation: Mix black sesame seeds with warm water, steam in a pot until steam rises, then remove from heat and sun-dry. Repeat steaming and drying several times, then grind into fine powder. Take 10g on an empty stomach with warm water before meals.<br>White Radish: Traditional Chinese medicine holds that radish "benefits the five zang organs, lightens the body, strengthens vitality, and makes skin fair and muscular." Modern research confirms this due to its rich vitamin C content, which inhibits melanin formation and reduces skin pigmentation. Some scholars believe intestinal stagnation leads to decomposition of proteins by intestinal bacteria producing toxic ammonia, which enters blood and harms the body, accelerating aging. Radish’s laxative effect counters this, contributing to skin beautification and blood nourishment.<br>Red Cherries: Red cherries contain the highest iron content among all fruits. Regular consumption increases hemoglobin levels, achieving blood-nourishing and rosy complexion effects.<br>Green Peas: *Bencao Gangmu* states peas "remove dark spots (facial spots, pigment deposits) and make face luminous." Modern research finds peas rich in vitamin A precursor, which converts to vitamin A in the body—known for moisturizing skin—and is safe since it comes from common foods without toxicity.

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