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Give Up Sugar to Keep Yourself Young
June 11, 2007 at 8:35 PM
General Health News
According to Brandt, who discusses the effect of sweet on skin in his book 10 Minutes/10 Years: Your Definitive Guide To A Beautiful And Youthful Appearance, removing sweet from diet can make a person look ten years younger.
"In a nutshell, sugar hastens the degradation of elastin and collagen, both key skin proteins. In other words, it actively ages you,” the Daily Mail quoted Dr Brandt, as saying.
The sugar leads to glycation process that makes sugar molecules bind to your protein fibres, which are flexible collagen and elastin fibres that form the base for a person’s skin.
"Imagine that your collagen is your skin’s mattress and the elastin fibres are the coils holding it together. The sugar attacks these fibres, making them less elastic and more brittle so they break. The result is that your once-youthful skin starts to sag and look old,” he added.
The glycation process makes these fibres to change; causing harmful new molecules called Advanced Glycation End products (AGEs), which damage collagen and elastin.
A healthy skin will get back to its original position after a smile, but if collagen and elastic has been made delicate by glycation, wrinkles appear.
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