If you’re like most women, you’re constantly fighting two battles: keeping your weight in check, and aging. Even girls in their twenties are fighting the battle of the bulge and searching for skin care treatments that will prevent wrinkles, lines, bags and sags. Although we do need to protect our skin and keep it hydrated with natural skin care products, we could kill two birds with one stone ?" skin care and weight control ?" if we take a few tips from a caveman.

Cavemen lived in the Stone Age ?" also known as Paleolithic Era. Many researchers trying to isolate the perfect diet concluded that the Paleolithic diet is the optimal diet for man. Based on their studies of tribes that still live the caveman lifestyle, and caveman diet, there’s good reason to believe they may be right: These tribes are invariably slim, strong and fast, with straight teeth, perfect eyesight and fresh, supple, blemish-free skin. Disease of any sort, mental or physical, is rare. And their diet is basically the same as it was two million years ago.

You may find the Paleolithic diet a little hard to follow, unless you want to take the time to find steaks made from wild zebra killed at the hunt ?" and they are available, by the way ?" but there are basics you can follow that will help get your weight under control, and form the basis of your natural skin care treatment routine.

Here’s the shopping list: meat, including organ meats, chicken and fish, vegetables (especially root vegetables like carrots, turnips and parsnips), eggs, nuts (walnuts, Brazil nuts, macadamias, and almonds ?" not peanuts or cashews), and fruit, especially lots of strawberries, blueberries and raspberries. Drink water and herbal teas. Animals should be raised in an environment where they are free to roam and eat food that is part of the natural landscape. Don’t eat animals that were fed on something you wouldn’t eat. Of course, it all has to be organic. No chemicals.

That shopping list is loaded with everything you need for good natural skin care ?" proteins, vitamins, minerals, antioxidants, healthy fats and oils. And, believe it or not, it will keep your weight down. The protein builds muscle and new cells, the natural oils help the body absorb the nutrients, keep the skin supple, and enhance brain and central nervous system function.

Of course, exercise has to be part of it ?" you can’t hunt zebra and gather wild roots and berries from a couch.

Not exactly the salad you’re used to, I know. But different bodies respond to different diets, and it may be just what you’re looking for. The Paleolithic diet has restored many to good health, which manifests in disease-free, glowing and youthful skin.

When you understand how to care for your skin, you can improve its condition. There is a great deal of educational information about natural skin care available.

Unfortunately, no matter what diet we choose, the concentration of toxins and chemicals in our current environment is still going to be a problem. A good shielding lotion is an excellent natural skin care product for both prevention and treatment of skin care problems. It bonds with the skin to form a protective layer that locks in natural moisture and keeps out chemicals.

The combination of a good diet, and the protection afforded by a shielding lotion, may be all the natural skin care treatment you need. And you may even put your weight problems behind you.