17 March 2009 Healthy Inside and Out: Nutrition for your Skin Page 1 ArticlesAuthor: Carin g Hansen next pageAmoena Life MagazineYour skin is the largest organ of your body. You need to feed it good nutrition just like all the internal organs of your body. Years ago, I had a doctor put me on the “Stone Age Diet”. It was a diet where I was to eat everything as close to its original form as possible. Of course it included lots of fresh fruits and vegetables – and when it came to cooked food I was to boil, bake and grill versus fry or cover with rich sauces. The idea behind the diet was to help my body heal by offering foods that were in their purest form. Feeding my body foods that were easy to digest would give the maximum nutrition possible. There is a lot of information in the news daily about what stress can do to your body as it relates to internal health. We also know what external environmental toxins can do to stress our bodies both internally and externally. Adding a disease such as breast cancer and treatment for this disease raises our stress levels immensely. Additionally, your skin may become overly dry, extremely oily or dull and lifeless - unable to function optimally to flush out toxins from treatment and environment. You may be adding to your skin’s stress unknowingly with what you are putting on your face and body. Reading the ingredient list on organic skin care products and cosmetics can be like selecting from a menu of wonderful, mouth watering fruits, vegetables and edible flowers at your local restaurant. White grapes, mangos, calendula (marigolds), cane sugar, coconut oil, red raspberries, fuchsia and apple blossoms are just a few of the ingredients often found in organic skin care products and cosmetics. Skin care products and cosmetics made of organic ingredients are easier for your skin to “digest”. When you use organic products, your skin is receiving essential oils, vitamins and minerals without having to work through added ingredients like artificial fragrances or colors and preservatives. Conversely, reading a list of ingredients from non-organic products can be daunting. It reminds me of a comic I saw years ago. It was a picture of a woman standing in the grocery store holding a box of pre-prepared food as she read the ingredient list. The caption read, “Mmmm, just like mom used to make. She was a chemical engineer”. Talc, propylene glycol, methyl-paraben, propylparaben, urea and diazolidinyl urea, sodium lauryl sulfate and synthetic colors and/or fragrances are a few of the ingredients commonly found in skin care products, cosmetics and hair products. Over the past few years, there has been extensive research and testing done on these ingredients. The results to date are not very impressive from a health standpoint, to put it mildly.There is no debate when it comes to the advantages these ingredients offer in respect to extended shelf life, ease of use and application. The debate begins when we examine the ingredients listed above, and others from a user-safety standpoint. Logically there can be no denying that if what we are using on our external bodies is in any way harmful to us, then this is also adding stress internally. Anytime your body has to deal with something that is not botanically based certain body systems have to work overtime to try to neutralize or eradicate the harm. When considering chemotherapy as a cancer treatment – the chemo drugs used are supposed to be a stressor to our bodies. The purpose of the drugs is to kill off cancer cells. Unfortunately, in the process of killing those cells it attacks other fast-multiplying cells in our bodies including hair, mouth lining and stomach cells. Western medicine believes that the benefit from these drugs in terms of killing cancer cells and shrinking tumors outweighs the damage caused to the rest of the body by these drugs. Let the record stand: I am NOT advocating giving up the cancer treatment regimen your doctors have put you on if you have cancer – nor trying to completely stay away from all stressors. That is not only absurd, it is impossible. However, when dealing with cancer it is important to protect your body from dealing with more stress than necessary. One of the ways to do that is by feeding your skin and your body with organic products that will nourish and strengthen you both internally and externally.(Click here to continue reading the article on page 2.)Home, Books, Resources, Recommended Products, Articles, Blog, Homemade Beauty, Support, Services, About, Contact Us, Site Map, Newsletters
17 March 2009 Healthy Inside and Out: Nutrition for your Skin Page 1 Articles
Author: Carin g Hansen next page
Amoena Life Magazine
Your skin is the largest organ of your body. You need to feed it good nutrition just like all the internal organs of your body. Years
ago, I had a doctor put me on the “Stone Age Diet”. It was a diet where I was to eat everything as close to its original form as
possible. Of course it included lots of fresh fruits and vegetables – and when it came to cooked food I was to boil, bake and grill
versus fry or cover with rich sauces. The idea behind the diet was to help my body heal by offering foods that were in their purest
form. Feeding my body foods that were easy to digest would give the maximum nutrition possible.
There is a lot of information in the news daily about what stress can do to your body as it relates to internal health. We also know
what external environmental toxins can do to stress our bodies both internally and externally. Adding a disease such as breast
cancer and treatment for this disease raises our stress levels immensely. Additionally, your skin may become overly dry, extremely
oily or dull and lifeless - unable to function optimally to flush out toxins from treatment and environment. You may be adding to
your skin’s stress unknowingly with what you are putting on your face and body.
Reading the ingredient list on organic skin care products and cosmetics can be like selecting from a menu of wonderful, mouth
watering fruits, vegetables and edible flowers at your local restaurant. White grapes, mangos, calendula (marigolds), cane sugar,
coconut oil, red raspberries, fuchsia and apple blossoms are just a few of the ingredients often found in organic skin care products
and cosmetics. Skin care products and cosmetics made of organic ingredients are easier for your skin to “digest”. When you use
organic products, your skin is receiving essential oils, vitamins and minerals without having to work through added ingredients like
artificial fragrances or colors and preservatives.
Conversely, reading a list of ingredients from non-organic products can be daunting. It reminds me of a comic I saw years ago.
It was a picture of a woman standing in the grocery store holding a box of pre-prepared food as she read the ingredient list. The
caption read, “Mmmm, just like mom used to make. She was a chemical engineer”. Talc, propylene glycol, methyl-paraben,
propylparaben, urea and diazolidinyl urea, sodium lauryl sulfate and synthetic colors and/or fragrances are a few of the ingredients
commonly found in skin care products, cosmetics and hair products. Over the past few years, there has been extensive research
and testing done on these ingredients. The results to date are not very impressive from a health standpoint, to put it mildly.
There is no debate when it comes to the advantages these ingredients offer in respect to extended shelf life, ease of use and
application. The debate begins when we examine the ingredients listed above, and others from a user-safety standpoint. Logically
there can be no denying that if what we are using on our external bodies is in any way harmful to us, then this is also adding
stress internally. Anytime your body has to deal with something that is not botanically based certain body systems have to work
overtime to try to neutralize or eradicate the harm.
When considering chemotherapy as a cancer treatment – the chemo drugs used are supposed to be a stressor to our bodies. The
purpose of the drugs is to kill off cancer cells. Unfortunately, in the process of killing those cells it attacks other fast-multiplying
cells in our bodies including hair, mouth lining and stomach cells. Western medicine believes that the benefit from these drugs in
terms of killing cancer cells and shrinking tumors outweighs the damage caused to the rest of the body by these drugs.
Let the record stand: I am NOT advocating giving up the cancer treatment regimen your doctors have put you on if you have
cancer – nor trying to completely stay away from all stressors. That is not only absurd, it is impossible. However, when dealing
with cancer it is important to protect your body from dealing with more stress than necessary. One of the ways to do that is by
feeding your skin and your body with organic products that will nourish and strengthen you both internally and externally.
(Click here to continue reading the article on page 2.)
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