Raw food blog

The best way to have healthy, glowing skin is to start from the inside out. Eliminating caffeine in the form of coffee, tea and soda is one way to start. Caffeine dehydrates the body and skin and this lack of moisture is a surefire way to create lines and wrinkles. Caffeine is also a diuretic, causing increased urine output, again depleting your body and skin of the moisture it needs. You can try to combat this with moisturiser, but a better way is to put the moisture INTO your body, not on it.

Drinking pure water, unprocessed fruit juices or coconut milk will give your body and skin the hydration it needs. The colours in fruit juices are the colours of the earth and these colours will reflect themselves in warm and healthy skin tones.

The overall effects of caffeine on your body will manifest themselves in your skin and heavy caffeine drinkers can also experience osteoporosis, headaches, depression and sleeplessness.

When you replace cola, coffee and tea with water, fresh fruit juices, “sun tea” and coconut milk, you’ll soon start to feel better, have more energy and sleep better. Your skin will reflect the good health of all the organs and cells of your body; once you’ve kicked the caffeine habit.

Another reason for drinking pure water, juices and “sun tea” is that when you boil water, you lose oxygen from it, which important in keeping your body detoxified. When the body rids itself of toxins, they can pass through the skin (the largest organ of elimination). Raw food increases your detoxification rate and drinking water helps the body rid itself of these unwanted toxins.

To achieve a healthy complexion, drink plenty of water and eat plenty of raw food. What goes into your body is reflective in your overall appearance.