Freshness is the theme, as both the character of our farmers market finds, and the broad goal for our complexions. In our seasonal eating series with beauty editor turned heath expert, Jolene Hart, we've been bolstered in our belief that getting gorgeous starts within.
Jolene's Eat Pretty is a guide to "healthy vanity" feeding us the facts on eating for beauty and encouraging us to turn to the seasons as our personal nutritionists! Jolene's latest book, Eat Pretty, Live Well, is a companion to the first, with pages of simple lists and self-love Q + A's - the best beauty tool you won't find in a makeup bag.
For Spring, Jolene explains why what's coming from the local farmer's makes perfect fuel for a beautifying, lightly detoxifying season...
It’s easy to love the energy and beauty that surrounds us during the spring, a season that represents rebirth, inspiration and possibility. This season, adopt a mindset of cleansing and resetting that starts with your diet and extends to your beauty routine, your home and your body. This is the moment to simplify, returning to the core beauty foods and habits that make you glow all year long.
When it comes to your beauty, spring is the time to amp up the natural detoxification happening in your body, support optimal digestion and nourish your skin from the inside out with spring beauty foods. After eating plate after plate of warming, cooked meals during the winter, spring greets us with a crop of delicate, crisp, green beauty foods like leafy greens, asparagus and endive. You’ll want to eat these foods mostly raw, to preserve their nutritional benefits.
Spring’s harvest is brimming with foods that naturally support detoxification, cleansing and weight loss in the body, some of our top areas of spring focus, which balances out the heavier, starchier foods that sustain us during the winter. In spring, opt for more artichokes, asparagus and dandelion greens for their cleansing properties.
Overall, you won’t find many sweet or starchy foods at the farmer’s market in the springtime, which is nature’s way of resetting our palates and reducing extra weight we may have stored over the winter. To ensure that you get the most from spring’s beautifying green harvest, add a daily serving of fermented foods like raw sauerkraut or kimchi to your diet, as well as healthy fats like avocado, raw seeds or a drizzle of olive oil at every meal.
Below you'll find a recipe for an ideal spring beauty meal. This light, comforting soup is nourishing to your all-important digestive system, while the accompanying salad features some of spring’s top beauty foods, chosen for their ability to support detox and glowing skin.
For the full list of spring beauty foods, check out the Spring Beauty Awakening chapter of Eat Pretty: Nutrition for Beauty Inside and Out, and its companion journal, Eat Pretty, Live Well. [olists num=1][olists num=2]
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