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Your body has built-in detoxification processes that remove compounds, such as free radicals, that cause skin damage. Some plant nutrients, called phytonutrients, can work at an even deeper level in our bodies by signaling to your skin to increase the production of these detoxifying enzymes.
All cruciferous vegetables, including Brussels sprouts, contain phytonutrients and optimize your skin cells’ ability to disarm and clear free radicals and other toxins. Today, researchers have concluded that eating cruciferous vegetables frequently (3 to 5 times per week) lowers the risk of prostate cancer, colorectal cancer, and lung cancer. If these miniature cabbages can help remove toxins that cause cancer, one can just imagine how many wrinkle-causing toxins they are able to remove as well.
Bursting with Vitamins
Brussels sprouts contain ample amounts of both the fat-soluble antioxidant vitamin A and beta-carotene, both of which play important roles in promoting supple, glowing skin. Brussels sprouts also contain about 160 percent of your daily recommended amount of vitamin C, the body’s primary water-soluble antioxidant, which supports the manufacture of one the skin’s main structural components: collagen.
Conventional versus Organic
Organically grown foods are cultivated without the use of pesticides and herbicides, unlike conventionally grown fruits and vegetables. Organically grown foods often have more nutritional value and antioxidants than conventionally grown foods.
Steaming Maximizes Their Power
What’s the best way to eat your Brussels sprouts? Well, my nephew would say covered in melted cheese. The best way to eat Brussels sprouts for wrinkle prevention, however, is to lightly steam them. This method of cooking has been shown to retain the most phytonutrients and maximize their availability. Alternatively, Brussels sprouts make a lovely sauté, like in our Brussels Sprouts with Mustard and Spicy Maple Pecans. They can also be scattered around a chicken during roasting for a richer, more caramelized flavor.
Carrots
This vegetable is not just for rabbits. And they’re not all orange, either carrots also come in white, yellow, red, and even purple varieties. The orange-colored carrot that’s so common and abundant in North America emerged in the Netherlands in the fifteenth or sixteenth century. The struggle for independence by the Dutch, who are well known for their patriotic orange color, helped to popularize this orange vegetable. And they should be proud—the orange color in carrots is what makes it a wrinkle-fighting food.
Improve Vision, One Carrot at a Time
Eating carrots is thought to be good for your eyes because carrots contain a good amount of beta-carotene, an orange-colored nutrient that is converted to vitamin A in the body. A lack of vitamin A can cause poor vision, particularly night vision, and eating more carrots or other vegetables that are rich in vitamin A can help restore your eyesight.
Carotenoids Prevent Wrinkles
Every day our skin comes in contact with environmental factors like sun radiation and toxins that cause the formation of free radicals in our skin. These free radicals damage the DNA, proteins, and lipids in our skin cells, causing them to become weak and fragile and to display unwanted signs of aging. Antioxidants, cartenoids included, are your protection against free radicals and the skin wrinkling they cause.
Eating carotenoid-rich foods every day is important as stress, illness, and ultraviolet radiation can reduce the concentration of carotenoids and other freeradical-fighting antioxidant substances in the skin. To help your skin stock up on carotenoids, be sure to include carrots and other orange fruits and vegetables in your diet.
