“Sweet tooth, milk tea addiction? Greasy skin, frequent breakouts? Full sun protection and whitening, but still black? It’s time for your anti-sugar…” In recent days, “anti-saccharification” has once become a hot word in the circle of friends, and also attracted the attention of CCTV. Both celebrities and ordinary people have started to “cut out sugar” in the hope of making their skin better and more beautiful. Skincare companies have also blamed saccharification for acne and accelerated aging.
Is cutting out sugar really anti-aging? Together, we unveil the “anti-sugar” myth.
The skin after saccharification is “hurt”
Saccharification occurs when too much sugar interacts with proteins in the body to form harmful molecules called advanced glycation end products (AGEs) that are irreversible. It can lead to the decrease of protein function and aging, and then cause the body aging and disease.
Epidermal saccharification, which causes excessive keratosis and increased sebum secretion of the skin, clogs the hair follicles, and eventually leads to acne; Too much sugar can also increase the body’s testosterone levels, leading to worse acne.
Dermal saccharification, skin quality will decline sharply, appear flaccid and droop.
Cuticle saccharification, skin locks water function to drop, can appear dry, coarse. There is an old saying that looks are given to you by your parents before you turn 30, but you give yourself after that.
Is “anti-sugar” anti-sugar?
It’s anti-ages, anti-aging, not real sugar.
Carbohydrate is the general name of various types of sugar, including monosaccharides, disaccharides, polysaccharides and so on. They are the source of 1,500 essential calories and are found in grains, tubers, roots, fruits, vegetables and legumes.
Maybe cutting out sweets and sugar is fine, but cutting out carbs is hard.
Five “anti-sugar” foods are recommended
tomato
Tomato has a kind of special composition to call “lycopene”, have distinctive antioxidant ability, can protect a cell, delay senescence, antioxidant ability is taller than carotene many times.
grapes
There is a special substance in grape called “grape polyphenols”, this substance can not only whiten skin but also increase skin elasticity, nutritional ingredients including flavonoids, anthocyanin and so on. Grape polyphenols have several dozen times the antioxidant capacity of vitamin C.
garlic
Garlic has a unique flavor that some people love and some people hate, and that flavor is the powerful antioxidant allicin, which is not found in fresh garlic and needs to be sliced or mashed to form allicin.
salmon
Salmon is rich in omega-3 fatty acids and astaxanthin, which promotes cardiovascular health and rejuvenates the skin, and astaxanthin has powerful antioxidant properties.
broccoli
Broccoli is rich in carotene, lutein, zeaxanthin, beta carotene and other strong antioxidants, is a natural antioxidant.
The four directions of “anti-sugar”
1, low sugar load diet, reasonable diet. Control daily caloric intake, eat less fried, barbecue food; Adjust eat order appropriately, eat vegetable first hind eat staple food and meat.
- Sunscreen and antioxidant. Including avoidance sunscreen, sunscreen and cosmetics sunscreen; Direct supplement of VC and VE or rich in food, enhance the body’s antioxidant capacity.
- Skin care products with anti-saccharification ingredients for external use. Nicotinamide (vitamin B3), puerarin, chlorogenic acid (honeysuckle and other plants rich), etc.
- Improve your living habits, go to bed early and get up early, and do more exercise. Through exercise effective and rapid consumption of excess sugar, to maintain the body’s sugar balance.
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