Whether it's creams, serums or even surgery it seems people will do just
about anything to turn back the clock but our next guest says the Fountain of
Youth could be hiding in your refrigerator yeah it's looking younger
could come down to what you eat dietitian Melanie McGrice joins us now in Melbourne
to talk us through the best foods to stop aging in its tracks Melanie, good
to see you a diet can have a huge impact on the quality of our hair our skin our
nails isn't that right recently the research certainly tells us that's the
case certainly I'm feeling a bit of pressure today because my forties and
haven't had any surgical work done and so I'm purely reliant on the food that I
ate thinking I wonder how old you are and I didn't want to ask because thank
you yeah look I certainly try my best to eat well and look after myself but I'm
very much of an all-natural type of girl so what are some of the best foods that
can help stop the aging process well one of the things that's really important is
to try and have a diet which is rich in low GI foods so we want to try and avoid
lots of sugar so avoiding cakes and sweet biscuits and slices and all those
types of things at the table and the research at the moment is showing that
the average Aussie diet is about a third made up of
discretionary foods so I think that's the problem is so many of us are having
so many sugary types of foods it isn't great for us on the inside or on the
outside yeah I've actually been on the aging diet now for quite so could there
be the ones that actually make us look younger let's talk about those yeah
well sweet potatoes is one of my favorite because sweet potatoes are rich
in vitamin A and vitamin A if we have enough if we don't have enough vitamin A
that can actually make our skin look quite rough and dry so that's very
important I'd also say garlic is another really important one okay because that
helps with oxygen flow and we want that oxygen coming to our skin to make it
oily fish? yeah oily fish is fantastic because that is a good source of omega-3
so I like salmon or sardines or even tin tuna is a great source and I'm
glad you're saying that the the most the most omega-3 can be found in
the skin yeah that's right so I always recommend trying to leave the skin on
our salmon I'm so in such a popular fish these days which is fantastic because
it's got about 2,000 milligrams of omega-3 but yeah leave the skin on
because that's where most of the omega-3 and an apple a day keeps an apple a day
is one of the best things for our skin so she's trying keep an apple in my
handbag when I'm heading out the door it helps with the glycemic index but is
also great for collagen production well yeah so collagen so what else can we do
to help our collagen because that's buzzword collagen. yeah that's right so
an apple is a really good choice for that and it's one of the best collagen
producers that there is and again that omega-3 so trying to get two to three
serves of fish in our diet on a weekly basis Melanie we've also got a bowl of
spinach leaves in a bowl of kale we need to eat them I recommend on a daily basis
so making a salad or something along those lines that they're really rich in
both vitamin C okay yeah I actually did some research and about to put it on my
new YouTube channel that shows that I really investigated it and what it found
is that if we freshly squeezed juices ourselves and make a green juice
ourselves that that actually keeps a lot of the nutrients in compared to buying a
straw bought juice where it's been sitting on the shelf for quite a while
good point. For more tips head to melaniemcgrice.com/healthy
Melanie good to see you. Thank You Melanie.