3 MUST HAVES IN YOUR GROCERY CART 2 KEEP YOU LOOKING YOUNG

Fill your shopping cart with foods that will fight for your right to look and feel amazing for years to come. Start munching on these goodies now to save face later...

HEMP
The omega-3 fatty acids in hemp help your skin retain moisture so you don't look like a cast member from Dawn of the Dead. Toss a tablespoon each of lemon juice, pine nuts, and shelled hemp seeds ($9 for 8 oz, manitobaharvest.com) into a blender with cup of hemp-seed oil ($10 for 8 oz, manitobaharvest.com), a chopped garlic clove, a pinch of salt, and 1/2 cup fresh basil. Whirl to create a delicious and healthy pesto. Worried about tripping the light fantastic after your snack? Don't be. Hemp is a different variety of cannabis, and it doesn't trigger positive drug tests.


PUMPKIN SEEDS
Score your dose of vitamin E, another powerful skin protector, by snacking on almonds or pumpkin or sunflower seeds. A lack of vitamin E can influence the quality and texture of your skin. Without it, your skin is at greater risk of damage from free radicals. If there is plenty of vitamin E in the membranes of cells exposed to free radicals, vitamin E will take the brunt of the attack and protect the fatty acid that surrounds all the intricate workings inside each cell.

CUCUMBER
The peel of this super-low-calorie fruit is made of silica, a building block of skin--plumping, wrinkle-preventing collagen. There's no recommended minimum intake for silica, but experts suggest at least five milligrams a day--the amount you'll get in the peel of one cucumber. Tip: Go organic. Regular cukes usually are treated with a coat of gack--inducing wax to preserve their shelf life, whereas organically grown ones often are left naked.

THE NAKED TRUTH, FAST FACT OF THE DAY!

Your skin is the largest and one of the most important organs in the body. It provides protection against infection, the environment and allows the body to heal from wounds. The average adult has some 22 square feet of dermis, which weighs approximately 8 pounds. Without skin, we would literally evaporate.

CONSEQUENCES

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THE TOP 10 BEST CITIES FOR YOUR SKIN!

Best Cities for Your Skin

TotalBeauty.com ranked the top 10 best cities for skin in America. The rankings looked at factors such as pollution and sun levels, tanning beds per capita, humidity, the number of smokers, stress and diet to find the best places suited for your skin. Is yours on the list?

1. Anchorage, Alaska
2. Bismarck, North Dakota
3. Honolulu, Hawaii
4. Flagstaff, Arizona
5. Billings, Montana
6. New York City, New York
7. San Antonio, Texas
8. Washington, D.C.
9. San Francisco, California
10. Cheyenne, Wyoming