The 7 Vegetables you MUST Eat to Knock Out Acne for Good

Your Mother was right, you know.

"Eat your vegetables", she would say when you were little. As important as it was then, it is even more important now that you are older. Not only do vegetables and fruits help promote a healthy body, but they are vitally important to your skin.

Eating vegetables and drinking vegetable juice can actually help keep your skin free from acne. Most of us so not eat near enough vegetables and seldom drink vegetable juices. It's no wonder we get acne.

How Do Vegetables Help My Body?

Vegetables and vegetable juices are rapidly absorbed into the bloodstream. Your cells quickly get nutrients they need and cell waste is washed away. Eating and drinking vegetables also provide your body with the minerals and nutrients that build and repair your blood, tissue, bones and cells. It is minerals that keep your body's pH at the required level.

Drink plenty of water and concentrate on putting minerals into your body by eating and drinking plenty of fruits and vegetables.

What Vegetables and Vegetable Juices are the Best?

Let's face it -- any vegetable that you will eat is a good choice. The more regularly you eat the vegetables, the better you will be.

However, some are better for your skin than others. Here are 7 of the best.

• Carrots - contain vitamin A carotenoids. These phytochemicals have been shown to enhance the health of skin and repair it when it is damaged. Eat raw carrots (the "baby"kind are good) or drink carrot juice. If you don't like carrot juice (I don't blame you --yuck) try mixing it 50-50 with apple juice.
• Cabbage - helps to detoxify the body of harmful chemicals from the air and food additives. You can drink this if you have a juicer -- maybe with the carrot/apple combo, but if you'd rather just include it in a salad.
• Celery - contains many minerals that help to neutralize body acid waste and is high in fiber.
• Cucumber - helps to reduce acne problems because it is high in silicon and sulfur. It is also a diuretic which helps flow more water through the kidney to clean out your blood.
• Garlic - is a natural antibiotic and will help relieve skin bacterial infections. Cook with it. Unlike most veggies it is even better for you when it is cooked. Just go easy on the salt and oil.
• Peppers - The nutrients in peppers are good for liver health and constipation. Its minerals are good for neutralizing acid waste. Not only good for you, but they liven up any bland food.
• Watercress - helps to prevent vitamin and mineral deficiencies at the skin surface. It provides Vitamin A, B1, B2, C, iron, manganese, copper, and calcium. Wow. Who who have thunk it?

Is it Better to Eat the Vegetables or Juice Them?

Yes!

Again, whatever gets vegetables into your body is good. They can't help you if you don't eat or drink them.

Find the veggies you like. Find the preparation you like. Vary it up. Eat a salad with Watercress and cabbage, snack on some baby carrots, juice some celery and carrots, whatever gets them into you.

If you want to knock out acne, you've got to go to the source. Your diet is the source of most of your health and health complaints.

Listen to your Mother. Eat your Vegetables!

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