Woman, like a bowl of wine - can be complete or empty.

If you want to have smooth skin, shiny hair and strong nails, you can give only one tip - do not starve!.

Every time a new patient enters the office of an experienced nutritionist, the doctor only needs one quick glance to determine how she eats. Years of practice and extensive experience tell a specialist that a tortured facial expression, colorless skin, dull hair and fine wrinkles is a sure sign of a constant adherence to a strict diet that invariably inflicts a crushing blow to female beauty.

"It's very difficult to tell a woman that a diet that she has worked so hard to look good in actually spoiling her appearance," says Swift, a nutrition expert from Massachusetts.

In cases when it comes to appearance, it can be confidently asserted that a woman is what she eats. Even if she adheres to a balanced diet, but at the same time exhausts herself with great physical exertion, she can harm her appearance.

"If your weight is less than the norm by 5 kilograms, it will not pass for you without a trace," says Cathy Swift. In other words, if your mass index is those (BMI) is lower than 18, then you are in the category of women with a lack of weight. To determine the BMI, you need to divide the weight in kilograms by the height in meters in the square. The normal is the index from 19 to 25.

Joanna Shlip, a make-up artist from Los Angeles who has worked for many years with fashion models, recalls that she had to use a large amount of concealer on fashion shows to hide dark circles under the eyes of the models, to use the makeup in abundance to revive their complexion, and lip gloss to improve the appearance of dry, chapped skin. "Of course, some women are very thin by nature, but leanness, forced on the body by force, has not yet adorned any model. And I've seen them so close that I can objectively judge the condition of their skin, "says Slip.

A thin waist at the expense of the skin?.

At any time of the year, about half of women follow a certain diet - and this is the case in all developed countries, where the problem of overweight is very acute. Meanwhile, nutritionists say that a regular reduction in caloric intake (up to 1,400 calories or less), as well as a decrease in the amount of fat consumed to a level when they are less than 20 percent in the daily menu, can cause serious damage to the exterior.

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