Your Sweet Tooth Can Make You Look Older 

The end of the year is approaching, and the Holidays are coming. Along with family gatherings and lots of fun, eventually, wrinkles and breakouts come. From October to January, we let go of our eating diets and indulge in desserts, sugars, juices, candy, and more. What we do not know is that those eating habits can have a long-term effect on your skin.  

Sugar Causes Aging 

Just like fruit sitting out unpeeled, over time it will mold. Apply this analogy to your skin, the sugars begin to combine with proteins which causes the brown color in fruit and veggies. Consuming sugars and sweets cause the same reactions, only it is happening internally working its way out.  

The Florida Dermatology and Skin Cancer Center suggests that there are three ways sugar affects the aging of your skin which is by exacerbating inflammatory skin conditions, accelerating aging, and causing acne breakouts.   

Sugar consists of glucose and fructose molecules; glucose is what causes oxidation. Our skin contains collagen and elastin, when sugar is consumed it can break down collagen and elastin. Collagen and elastin are what give our skin shape, structure, and firmness. As we consume excess sugar, it begins to combine with collagen which can lead to loss of softness of the skin.  Additionally, it can also cause increased acne, the appearance of wrinkles, sagging in the neck and chin, dark spots, and a lapse in the skin’s ability to heal from wounds.  

The simple solution is to use dependable skin care products such as TrueGleam's natural skin care anti-aging products. But the long-term solution is to simply consume less sugar.  

Consume Less Sugar 

The simple answer to cut back on sugar is to stop consuming refined sugar of all sorts. We all know that any habit cannot be just done all at once, however. Lowering your consumption of sugar is a slow process but takes a lot of awareness.  

The first step to taking control of your sugar consumption is to track your sugar intake or to replace the sugar items. Replacing your high-sugar meals with healthier ones or simply cutting back on them is the best solution to successfully taking control of your sugar consumption.  

If you consume lots of sugar, then slowly cutting back on your serving size would be the best practice. If you are not one to eat sugary items often, then replacing them with a healthier item is best. Lastly, if you one to avoid sugar, candy or desserts but consume them around events or holidays then it may be easier for you to stop together.