Recently, British Journal of Dermatology reported that sugar can cause the skin loses elasticity and wrinkles appear. What can we do to make sure it does not happen to us too early?
1. Reduce intake of sweet foods from your daily diet. Not easy to remove sugar overall. Foods such as whole grains, fruits, and vegetables will be turned into glucose. Try to reduce intake of added sugar.
Beware of hidden sugars. Many fast foods contain sugar in large quantities. Sometimes, in the panel containing substances in packets, sugar hiding in a pseudonym, such as barley malt, corn syrup, dextrose, fruit juice concentrate, maltose, maple syrup, molasses, and turbinado-on.
The key is estimating how many teaspoons of sugar per serving contained in the product. Check nutrition labels for sugar, which will be written in size compared to the total carbohydrate grams, then divide 4 (each teaspoon of sugar equals 4 g) to determine the amount in a teaspoon size. For example, if sugar is in your food writing as much as 12 g, means you consumption three teaspoons of sugar per serving.
2. Add 1 mg of vitamin B1 and B6 a day. These vitamins proved to be against the inhibitor of AGE in several studies, says David J. Goldberg, MD, professor dermatologist at Mount Sinai School of Medicine. B1 and B6 contained in many foods, but consume a multivitamin will ensure you get this intake.
3. Wear sunscreen SPF 30 every day. Significantly occur on sun-exposed skin than skin protected.
4. Antioxidant protection. Antioxidants are free radical antidote which can prevent the sugars attached to proteins. So, do not forget to consume fruits, nuts, and vegetables that are rich in antioxidants. For instance, cranberries, walnuts, red peppers, and applying antioxidants to the skin, like lotion of green tea, vitamin C and vitamin E.
5. Use the content that protects the skin from sugar. A number of products containing aminoguanidine and alistin, believed to hold the formation of Ages. Aminoguanidine capture molecules that start the glycation process and prevent them form bonds with the collagen and elastin. Alistin While serving as a decoy, so the substance tersebutlah be damaged, not the protein of your skin.