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Foods that help maintain beauty after 40 years old
Last reviewed: 02.07.2025
Women of any age always want to stay beautiful. It is especially difficult to maintain beauty after 40 years, so it is very important to watch your diet during this period. Nutritionists have identified several products that must be present in the menu of every middle-aged woman.
- Grapefruit is a great antioxidant that fights early aging and ensures quality sleep. In addition, this fruit is low in calories, nutritious and helps curb appetite, preventing excess weight. You can drink fresh grapefruit juice, add slices to salads or even to your morning oatmeal. Grapefruit is “friends” with almost any fruit, as well as with fish, seafood, and greens.
- Red fish is rich in fatty acids, which improve thinking processes, prevent the development of age-related changes in the brain, normalize cholesterol levels in the blood, and stabilize blood pressure. Of course, not everyone can afford to include red fish in their diet every day. However, experts recommend eating 100-150 g of fish at least twice a week. It is not necessary to buy salmon or salmon - you can also pay attention to relatively inexpensive species, such as chum salmon, pink salmon.
- Chicken meat, or turkey meat, freed from the skin, is a storehouse of vitamins and nutrients. Vitamin PP is especially valuable in this product, which promotes skin rejuvenation. In addition, turkey meat is rich in choline, which improves brain activity and memory processes. It is recommended to cook the meat in a steamer or stew it in a small amount of liquid, with vegetables.
- Dark chocolate (cocoa - not less than 75%, and better - 85%) contains polyphenols, which protect vascular walls from damage by free radicals. In addition, chocolate improves sexual activity and improves mood. Doctors recommend eating up to 2-3 pieces of dark chocolate daily. To prolong the pleasure, you can sprinkle oatmeal or cottage cheese with chocolate chips.
- Not a particularly popular product among our compatriots – spinach – contains lutein, which has antioxidant properties. Lutein stops age-related changes in the organs of vision. Of course, fresh spinach will bring the greatest benefit. However, it is also eaten stewed, with the addition of a small amount of water and oil. In addition, spinach is added to minced meat, omelette, boiled pasta, etc.
In addition to nutrition, every woman who has crossed the forty-year mark should not forget about the need for physical activity, proper rest, and active pastime. It is also important to ensure proper care of hair, skin, and nails - after 40 years, the level of estrogens decreases, and this does not have the best effect on the condition of the body. If you follow all the not so complicated, but very important recommendations, you can stay beautiful, healthy, and young for a long time.
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