Sugar Makes Your Skin Age Faster, and Why A Low GI Diet Will Help You Have Younger Looking Skin

Studies have now shown that sugar and other high GI carbs in your diet actually make your skin age faster.

So make sure that when you use a breakthrough wrinkle cream that works, that you also have a great diet to go along with it!

As explained by Fredric Brandt MD, a dermatologist in private practice in Miami and New York City, that when we have sugar in our diet, there's a process called glycation, where the sugar in your bloodstream attaches to proteins, to form new molecules called "advanced glycation end products" (or AGEs for short).

And the more sugar and refined carbohydates you have, the more AGEs are formed.

And you know what, the collagen and elastin in your skin is susceptible to this process. According to a study published in the British Journal of Dermatology, this damage to your skin caused by these AGEs starts at about the age of 35, and increases quickly after that.

Brandt also explains that a high sugar diet also causes another change in your skin. There are 3 types of collagen in your skin, type 1, 2 and 3, with type 3 being the most resilient. A high sugar diet causes type 3 collagen in your skin to turn into type 1 collagen, making your skin less supple and resilient.

There's another thing that happens.

The AGE proteins floating around causes your body's natural antioxidants to be deactivated, which means your skin prone to damage by the sun, stress or other causes of free radicals.

An example of these AGE proteins in very high levels is in people who are diabetic.

According to Karyn Grossman, MD, a dermatologist in New York City and Santa Monica, a diabetic can have up to 50 times the number of AGEs in their skin compared to people who aren't diabetic.

So what should you do?

Well, you firstly need to realise that sugar and refined carbohydrates in your diet is causing damage to your skin, which you now know. These 2 tips will help:

Tip 1

Firstly be aware of your sugar intake, and cut down if needed.

According to a MSN report on these findings, it was recommended that you should keep added sugar to no more than 10% of your daily calories, or 10 teaspoons a day for an average person.

The average American consumes 31 teaspoons a day in fact.

Sugar is found in obvious sources such as adde sugar, fruit juice, soft drinks, cakes and biscuits.

But also watch out for hidden, or less obvious sources of sugar.

According to the report, hidden sources include these ingredients which are bascially sugar: corn syrup, dextrose, fruit juice concentrate, maltose, barley malt, maple syrup, turbinad and mollases.

And how do you tell how much sugar is present?

You divide the number of carbohydrates by 4. So if there's 12 grams of carbohydrates on the packaging, this means you're getting 3 teaspoons of sugar.

So stick to less than 10 teaspoons a day if you can.

Step 2

Make sure that the carbohydrates that you do have are less dense in calories, and are low GI (low glycemic).

We all need carbohydrates every day. The secret is to have the ones which are the "good" carbs.

And it's quite simple.

The good carbs to have are vegetables (most vegetables are low in calorie density and are low GI, except for potatoes).

Fruits are also quite good, but they have a higher sugar content that vegetables.

So have more vegetables than fruit, for example, have 5-10 serves of vegetables and 2 serves of fruit a day.

Fruit and veggies provide lots of antioxidants too, as well as being good carbs.

And remember to have fruits rather than juice, as juice typically has the fibre taken out, making it high GI.

The carbs that are high in calorie density are bread, rice and pasta.

So have less of these foods.

And when you do, have the low GI version of these.

These are grainy and sourdough bread (not white or wholemeal), Basmati and Japanese short grain rice, and whole durum wheat pasta.

So there you have it.

You now know the story of how sugar affects our skin, and what to exactly look out for in your diet to avoid the harmful sugars and to have the better carbs instead.

And remember, as you combine a healthy diet with a wrinkle cream that works, this is when you get the most impressive results.

You'll look years younger, and feel years younger as well.

So go for it and get your diet spruced up.

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