Garbage in, garbage out
July 16, 2007
A friend of mine is joining her coworker on her raw foods kick for a couple of days (or longer, if it proves to be enjoyable). During this time, my friend will consume food in its natural form, without cooking anything. Lest you worry about the consumption of raw meat, I should stress that this is a vegan raw foods kick.
Why go raw?
Well, raw foods are supposed to do wonders for the skin. In the last few months I have begun to study my face more carefully and noticed some signs of a face that isn’t being fed the right things. A steady diet of sugar and fat have resulted in pores that remain large, a t-zone that is still oily and could those faint lines they call wrinkles be appearing? On my face? God forbid (please God, forbid this on my face!).
I, queen of superlatives, have never gone without processed sugar in my life. If I’m not ingesting it with my daily tonne of skittles, I’m inhaling it with my Sunday muffin, or my ubiquitous fruit drink (now with real juice!). We are blessed with resilient bodies but eventually my skin will say “enough is enough” and I’ll begin to be mistaken for my sister’s mother.
I can’t let myself be robbed of the compliments that have followed my mom for years: being mistaken for her child’s sister, yet I’m not ready to go raw. Instead, I will fight sugar with beta carotene! Fat with lycopene! dextrose with vitamin C…you get the idea.
Shania Twain uses this cream called Bag Balm on her face, or so she claimed on Canada AM or some show years ago. She claims it does wonders for the skin, and for weeks my father could not get any at the feed store.
(It is actually a balm used for cracked and dried udders on dairy cows who've spent too much time in the sun/wind)
Anyhow, I know it works wonders on cracked udders and on cracked hands or heels. However, I would never put it on my face as it feels much akin to a glob of lard. Like Vaseline, only worse.
Its a thought, at any rate. And hey, if Shania can do it….