Beauty benefits from your daily diet

Friday, 27 January 2012 4:32 PM

Want to get anti-ageing beauty benefits from your diet? MyVitality hopes to show people that you can change more than just your weight by changing the foods you eat… The website goes far beyond your average ‘dieting’ site, acting as a nutritionist, life coach, chef and beauty therapist all in one.

Designed by a team of health experts, it builds an in-depth personal profile based around you and your needs.

Just fill in a questionnaire about your current lifestyle, diet and health and beauty goals and it does the rest. In general, recommended daily diets should include: pure water, colourful fruit and vegetables, fresh seeds, supplements with vitamin C and zinc, fibre-rich foods, and at the same time to limit the intake of: alcohol, tea and coffee, wheat and dairy products, processed foods.

Skin condition can also be affected by underlying health factors including the efficiency of your digestion, the state of your immune system, your body’s detoxification potential, food sensitivities and even hormone balance. 

Tackle wrinkles with a collagen drink

Can a collagen drink boost your beauty?

Beauty drinks are all the rage in Japan and now a formula has been developed for distribution in Europe, too. Pure Gold Collagen offers an alternative way to combat signs of ageing, such as wrinkles, fine lines and sagging skin, from the inside out.

Mediterranean diet is one of the healthiest

Know your health news for a healthy diet

The more you read websites and news resources such as FoodNotes.co.uk, the better your diet will be. Don't take our word for it - Italian researchers found a direct link between news consumption and adaption of the Mediterranean diet.

Find out where you're going wrong

Why your diet isn't working

One of the biggest hurdles we face when it comes to losing weight is making the decision to do it. It's not a case of thinking you might try and shift a few pounds or considering eating healthier it's about making a proper commitment to changing your lifestyle and taking the steps towards a new you.

Mediterranean food has health benefits

Study finds source of Mediterranian diet benefits

A new study claims to have found the scientific evidence of the food and health benefits contained within the Mediterranean diet. The Research studied a population of around half a million subjects in the Mediterranean region.

Oatcakes are full of slow-release energy

Oatcake ideas for your daily snack attack

Eat smart this spring and choose snacks with slow-release energy to make the most of your day. Oats are a wholegrain food that contain fibre and release energy slowly, which helps satisfy and keep hunger at bay throughout the day.

Chemical 'fingerprints' of food identified

New test works as 'diet detector'

Is this the ultimate diet detector? If colleagues are driving you mad with tales of virtuous January diets, but you suspect they have been scoffing cakes on the sly, new research from Aberystwyth and Newcastle Universities may be of interest.

Broccoli benefits best from wholefoods

Broccoli benefits 'best from wholefoods, not supplements'

When it comes to getting the maximum health benefit from vegetables, organic, steamed wholefoods are the way to go, particularly broccoli. Many vegetables containing key phytochemicals can boost your immune system, but you need to eat the real thing.

Brits admit to keeping snacks hidden

A sinful snacks hidden under your bed?

Britain's secret snack stashers are going to extreme lengths to hide their bad food habits from their family - even resorting to hiding food under their bed! One in 10 polled by American Pistachio Growers admitted to a bedroom stash of sweets.

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Broccoli helps kill cancer cells

Broccoli helps kill cancer cells

We have long been told about the health benefits of superfoods but now Sulforaphane, one of the primary phytochemicals in broccoli has been proved to selectively target and kill prostate cancer cells, leaving normal prostate cells healthy and unaffected.

Over half of Brits want to shed 'at least a stone'

weight loss

The study commissioned by diet aid manufacturer Slimsticks, also discovered that a worrying one in five people have followed an ‘eating is cheating’ starvation diet and one in ten have tried a liquid diet.