Sugar Also Bad for Aging?
Not only is sugar a surefire way to get a new acne breakout going on your face, but a lot of the newer research suggests that sugar is also a factor in the aging process of the skin, another good reason to minimize sugar in the diet.Â
The reason we now think that sugar causes aging to accelerate is that sugar becomes unused energy more easily than other more complex carbs, and so it becomes like “excess energy”, which in essence also becomes fat.Â
The aging link to this is that molecules that are used for energy join with proteins, including collagen, which is the youth serum of our skin. This results in what’s called “AGEs”, which somehow interfere with collagen production and make the skin less elastic.
Bottom line : Less sugar is better, for acne and for aging.
