Look Younger And GREAT For Your Age | Key To Glowing Skin | Anti-Aging Skincare Foods | Life Over 60

This is Sandra Hart at Life Over 60. Thank you so very much for coming today to see me. And today you may be scratching your head and saying what is she thinking about food and skin care? Well I want you to stop for a minute and think of yourself as a maybe a beautiful Ferrari, brand new and it's polished and shiny and it goes fast and has a lot of power and speed. But if you think about yourself now. Think about that same Ferrari that's been around for maybe 50 60 years or so or more. If you have taken care of that Ferrari it is worth 20 more times or at least three times more than it was when it was brand new. But the secret is taking care of it. Well that's the same way with us. We have to take care of our bodies no matter how young or old we are because it has to do with our health and our health relates to net worth. Now I am really into skin care. I've been into skin care. I think my mother took me to Mel Norman in our little town maybe I was about 13 or 14. And I remember the esthetician there told me she gave me a trick and I've never forgotten it. She said whenever you put anything under your eyes always start from the outside in. And I think that's why I don't have crow's feet and my bags aren't too bad. Not too bad. But anyway I truly am into skin care. But long ago I realized that we are a machine and the inside has to work with the outside. Whatever you put in your body is going to radiate as to what you look like and what your skin is like. So I am going to talk about several things today. Several foods. I'm going to talk about blueberries and all kinds of berries. Oranges, avocados, spinach, salmon. Let me look at my list. Eggs I'm going to talk about. And believe it or not I'm going to be talking about chocolate which I like very much because I have a sweet tooth. But I stay away from it a lot. Now would you believe that a blueberry, a tiny little blueberry and if you have a bowl of berries or put them on your cereal. It is called the tightening and renewal fruit. All of the ingredients has lots of vitamin C's and lots of great things in it to help tighten and renew your skin. And that goes for all berries like blackberries, raspberries, strawberries, acai berries. All of those berries are chock full of vitamin C and they give you the clearer skin not a blotchy skin and they give you the glow that you always want to see and especially as we're older we kind of lose that glow if we're not careful. The next one is would be watermelon. Now I have here I got at Walmart the other day. I buy small watermelons because honestly I have a very small space here in a small kitchen so I don't have a lot of room for a great big watermelon but I buy small watermelons. Watermelons are known to help you with certain kind of cancer for sun protection and believe it or not elasticity. And that's what we are all worried about today. At least I am. I'm so concerned about elasticity. Next one would be kiwi and I usually buy five or six at a time and I buy them when they're hard because they ripen so quickly. But believe it or not I always I even eat the skin and they say it's okay to eat skin because it has a lot of fiber. But this tiny little fruit is so good for your teeth and your bones as well as your skin. It has a firming aspect to it and also is cancer prevention in this tiny little fruit. The next one is avocado and you all know avocados and again I buy them when they're hard. I put them in my bowl and I let them ripen. But sometimes I just other than I can use them in salads with nuts and all other type of things it's very good. But sometimes if I want a snack in the middle of the day I'll just cut an avocado in half take away the seed and scoop out the flesh with a spoon and it's absolutely so delicious. And you know of course avocados are the main ingredient in guacamole and they have a d e copper iron and they help with free radicals in our body. And you know free radicals are what really destroy us inside. So if we ever can take intake any kind of food that protects us from those free radicals it's just absolutely awesome. We're going to talk about spinach. Now I used to kind of stay away from spinach because I thought it had too much iron and I heard that too much iron is not good for women of my age. So I wouldn't really eat a lot of spinach until I started to research it and I realized how wonderful it is. So many times I will just replace spinach with lettuce in my salads and you can also steam it if you like mix it with herbs and garlic and it makes a wonderful side dish. Spinach has B, C and E vitamins in it has lutein in it which helps keeps your eyes white and clear. That's a great addition to your healthy skincare diet. As you know if you follow me I am a pescatarian which means I am a vegetarian but I eat fish so that makes me a pescatarian. And my fish of choice is salmon because of the awesome omega-3s that are in salmon. They hydrate my skin and they provide me with the wonderful omega-3s that are so good for my body which also radiates and gives me that hydration that helps my skin glow. Another thing that salmon has and because of these omega-3s, omega-3s help fight inflammation and as you know as we get older inflammation can be an enemy in our bodies. It's important to try to get it if you don't eat fish and if you don't eat salmon try to at least give yourself some omega-3 supplements every day in your diet. As you know pescatarians do not eat eggs and vegetarians don't eat eggs but if you eat eggs they're a wonderful source of protein. They are great for tissue repair and also fighting infection and that is a plus in anyone's body. And the last thing on my list before I go into something else is dark chocolate. Now you don't eat the whole bar but at least dark chocolate at least 60 percent because dark chocolate is full of healthy flavonoids and it keeps you nice and hydrated. Now you've seen the fruits and vegetables that I've talked about and you're thinking oh how can I you know buy all of those things I'm not living in a climate where I can get fresh vegetables all the time and the economy is going so up and everything is so expensive. So what I do at least once a day most days I treat myself to this and I have found the same type of product in Publix, Trader Joe's, Walmart. I happen to get these at Walmart and Aldi. They are called smoothie packets. There are at least four packets inside of this bag so that you can individually put them in your blender and add juice, milk, water, whatever type of liquid you want to it. You make yourself a smoothie and you are getting sugar no sugar added products you are getting. For instance this has pineapple, banana, apple, kale with lemongrass, celery, chia seeds all natural with no sugar added. This cost me I think about $9.95 at Walmart so if you consider there are four packages in here it gives me a nice lunch and good healthy meal for about $2. So I think it's really really worth it. Now this one just happens to have fiber I've had some with Aussie berries that have kale in them because kale is very good for you as well but also here's another one and this one basically is an energy boost and it has mandarins, spinach, apples, grapes, bananas all natural and no sugar added and all of these come in little pouches and it's really good and it's a good way to economize and still you're getting all of these wonderful healthy skincare foods in your body. Now you understand when you eat these foods they don't immediately just jump up and run into your skin and make it all glowing and healthy. No because it's a machine your body processes all of this food and because it's healthier because of what you put inside of it that glow radiates to your skin. That glow makes you look younger and if your skin is tighter and younger and you have more energy you not only feel better but you actually feel much younger than your age by doing this. So it's a simple way that if you combine good skincare with what you put in your body then you will have a working machine that is like that vintage Ferrari that has been taken care of for years. Thank you so much for coming today. I hope you've had an interesting day with me today and please do something good for yourself. Maybe it's think about what you're putting in your body. Be kind whomever crosses your path and of course we know that we have to share the love and most definitely pray for world peace. And if you are watching me and you're feeling alone please know that you are loved and that you are never alone. Thank you again so much. I hope to see you next Tuesday for another conversation. Take care and let's all stay healthy, stay younger than we are and feel younger than we are. So long and I'll see you soon.