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8 ways to keep you looking good this Christmas!

Prepare to party!
With all the parties coming up it’s easy to forget about your diet and nutrition! You need to remember that although the goodies are extremely tasty they are packed with high contents of salt and sugar. Before you go out have some quick but nutritional so that you won’t be as tempted to pick at the party food all night and end up piling on the pounds and giving you spots.

Avoid salt!
Try not to use salt in your cooking or add extra salt to your food. Also try not to eat salty snacks such as crisps and peanuts. Instead add lemon juice to your cooking- lemon juice creates a salty flavour as the taste buds are close by on the tongue- sounds bizarre but really works!

Keep skin glowing with omega 3!
During the winter months skin tends to dry out a little bit. Try to increase your oily fish intake such as mackerel, sardines and salmon. Unsalted nuts and seeds such as almonds and sunflower seeds also increase your essential fatty acid intake. Seeds can be added to salads, yoghurts and porridge or just nibbled on through out the day as a snack. Omega 3 is an essential supplement to take as our body needs it but doesn’t make it. Omega 3 helps to keep the skin supple.

Give your body time to digest your food!
Christmas is an easy time to indulge on lots of snacks. But one thing that will help your digestive system is to make sure you chew all your food properly, (sounds simple but you would be surprised at the amount of people who don’t). Chewing your food really well helps to produce saliva and will help your stomach to digest the food without causing indigestion as the stomach then produces a range of enzymes to break down foods.

Improve your intake of vitamin c!
If you take vitamin c every day it will improve your immune system to stop you getting coughs cold and runny noses! Let’s face it… none of us want to look like Rudolph and the works Christmas party do we? Having a smoothie packed with fruit every day is a good wake to increase your vitamin c intake or vitamin c supplements can be taken!

Avoid foods that irritate the gut!
Avoiding things like alcohol. Coffee, tea and aspirin as these make the stomach produce too much acid and irritate the gut wall. All meat fish and eggs can exaggerate over-acidity.

Reduce caffeine intake!
Christmas is a exhausting time with shopping partying etc, but try not to be tempted to drink too many drinks with caffeine in them. Things like coffee, tea, energy drinks and coca cola contain high amounts of caffeine. Once the boost from the drinks has worn off they make you feel more tired than when you started in the first place.

Water Water Water
I’m sure we all know that we should drink 2 litres of water per day. But how many of us actually do it? It’s great as a pre party drink as it flushes the system and helps to dilute other toxins such as alcohol.

If you want to speak to us for more advice for essential skin care, call us on 0113 282 3300.

Kate
Face the Future RGN