Look Younger By Reducing Sugar
February 19, 2009
Who does not want to look younger? We all do no matter what one may say. Look at any of your pictures when you were in your twenties and suddenly you see some one there you wish you could be again. We are not going to be talking conventional weight loss or meditation techniques; in fact we are going to tell you about the correlation with your weight, your skin and sugar.
Yes sugar the ever so sweet can in fact not be so sweet when it comes to your weigh; we all know that. Taking it a step forward we will tell you the link sugar has to your skin.
Nicholas Perricone a professor at the prestigious College of Human Medicine (Michigan University) is the author of the book titled ‘The Wrinkle Cure’. The book is all about how our bodies respond to sugar as well as other foods we eat. It is his advice and observation that men in particular should cut back their sugar intake if they wish to have fresher and younger looking skin.
It is said that half of all skin aging is due to excess of sugar in our blood streams. Sugar inhibits the usefulness of collagen within the skin cells. As per Perricone explanation he has come to believe that collagen binds with sugar. This causes a chemical change known as glycosylation. Discoloured skin as well as what is referred to age spots is due to glycoslysation over working the melanocytes (cells that contribute to pigmentation).
The Glycermic Index is an indicator of the blood sugar within your system. Make sure you learn to identify foods that will give you a low count on the Glycermic Index. Potatoes, bananas, corn and even peas have a rather high glycermic index so you should as a general rule keep them low on your dietary list. On the other hand you have fruits like blueberries, kiwi, and peaches which are low. On the vegetable side nothing to beat broccoli, spinach and most leafy greens.
What is good about these types of vegetables and fruits are that they produce and deliver sugar at a slower rate given the fact that they are fiber based. They are also are rich with antioxidants. Antioxidants are great at reducing free radicals. Free radicals left unchecked can lead to a host of illness like cancer, heart related issues, diabetics; all in all a depressed immune system.
Alpha-Lipoic tablets are currently available at most health stores dealing with food. You could take a pill twice a day as its an anti-inflammatory antioxidant which stops sugar from attaching it self to protein. This in turn will minimise the damage to your skin.
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