Vitamin A - Improve Skin tone and colour?

[sc0ttb]

Hi just wanting to ask about vitamin A. People have been teeling me that i look pale at the minute but i am training enough to keep fit, playing sport and eating and sleeping well!

A friend told me that he takes a glass of carrot juice everyday and he noticed a hugh difference. He went from being pale to almost brown! Does this sound right to you?

If so, is carrot juice the best source for vitamin A?

Cheers

 

[spockafina]

It's the beta-carotene that will give you colour - but you have to consume loads of it.

When one of my nephews was a baby, he would only eat sweet potatoes, peaches, apricots baby food jars and he was VERY orange for about a year, until he started liking other foods.

Orange/Red/Dark yellow fruits & veggies have a lot of Beta-carotene, though - like carrots, winter squashes, apricots, sweet potatoes, red peppers, etc.

Or you can try a self-tanning cream.

(I personally prefer being pale... I stand out among all the silly orange fake-baked college girls)

 

[Incitatus]

I agree with spockafina fake or unnatural looking tans look absolutely horrible

 

[LiveFromNY]

a friend said she knew someone who went on a diet and ate a lot of carrots...and that her skin got an orange tone!

i have had bad luck with the fake tanners - i'm very pale and was a weird looking orange from them..had to loofah and couldn't go outside for days, before i could get the color off....

 

[Fil]

Also, be careful, Vitamin A is fat-soluble, and is very toxic in high amounts.

 

[spockafina]

Also, be careful, Vitamin A is fat-soluble, and is very toxic in high amounts.

yes, this is also true.