Hello, you're listening to me, Liz Earl, with episode two of Wellness with

Lise Earl. The second episode of my audio well-being magazine with regular insights into all

things well-being.

And today I'm taking a look at Beauty from the Inside Out.

Now, I love the world of beauty but cosmetics and makeup are very

much the icing on the cake. What really makes a difference is how our skin is

created from within and the very building blocks that form fabulously

radiant skin come from the foods that we eat and the drinks that we drink. Many years ago I wrote a book for the BBC called Eat Yourself Beautiful

and back then it highlighted so many of these so-called super foods.

I wrote about dark green leafy cabbage as being good for the body as well as for the

skin and today no self-respecting superfoodie would think of overlooking the value of kale in our diet. And back in the early 1990s I was

writing then about the importance of good fats in the diet, especially things like

olive oil and the omega-rees from fish oils, as well as advocating

skin plumping avocados, which are a really excellent source of the free radical skin savour, vitamin E, as well as encouraging us all to eat more

colourful veggies. Really the nutrients are so often found in brightly coloured foods, especially the antioxidants, so we're looking here at

vitamin E, vitamin C and beta kerosene. You find those in the really colorful fruit

and veg and these nutrients are so helpful because we need them to create our own collagen and that is

what keeps our skin soft and strong.

So make sure you keep your plate as colourful as possible. People today talk about eating the rainbow.

And I do think that there's some truth in this.

Purple foods, for example, often have nutrients called anthracianins, and these are especially good for the skin as

they've been found to help ward off premature skin aging and for me my

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