What to Eat: The Healthiest Foods for Your Body

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BLEMISHED SKIN

Helpful foods—fresh green vegetables, almonds, sunflower seeds, wheat germ, cranberry juice, cucumbers, liver, carrots, sweet potatoes, apricots

Supplemental suggestions—vitamins A, B-complex, and E, bone meal or calcium lactate, lecithin, magnesium

THE HAIR

OILY HAIR

Helpful foods—fresh fruits and vegetables, fish, poultry, lean meats, whole grain cereals

Supplemental suggestions—vitamin B-complex, vitamin A

DRY HAIR

Helpful foods—one to two tablespoons unprocessed vegetable, seed or nut oil each day, cod-liver oil

Supplemental suggestions—vitamin E, vitamin A

DANDRUFF

Helpful foods—liver, cod-liver oil, unsaturated vegetable oils, wheat germ, fresh fruits and vegetables, protein-rich foods

Supplemental suggestions—desiccated liver, brewer's yeast, bone meal, lecithin

FADING COLOR

Helpful foods—liver, wheat germ, blackstrap molasses, sunflower seeds, whole grain cereals, rice polish, seafood, yogurt, cold-pressed vegetable and nut oils

Supplemental suggestions—brewer's yeast, kelp, vitamin B-complex

THE EYES

Helpful foods—leafy green and yellow vegetables, wheat germ, rice polish, molasses, sunflower seeds

Supplemental suggestions—vitamins A, B-complex, C, D and E, brewer's yeast, bone meal or calcium lactate

THE TEETH

Helpful foods—crusty and fibrous foods, raw, crisp vegetables, fresh fruits

Supplemental suggestions—vitamins A, C and D, bone meal

THE NAILS

Helpful foods—almonds, liver, blackstrap molasses, apricots, eggs, wheat germ, whole grain cereals, protein foods, horsetail tea

Supplemental suggestions—vitamin A, brewer's yeast, zinc, calcium lactate

THE OVERWEIGHT TORSO

Helpful foods—fresh fruits, raw vegetables, sunflower seeds, apricots, dates, yogurt, fibrous foods

THE UNDERWEIGHT TORSO

Helpful foods-milk, eggs, cheese, meats, poultry, fresh fruits and vegetables

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