What Dermatologists Eat

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‘A diet high in sugar and high-glycemic index (GI) carbohydrates such as white rice, pasta, bread, and sweets have now been shown to cause inflammation in the body that can make the skin age much quicker,’ Dr Williams said. 

One study, from the Leiden University Medical Centre in the Netherlands, made the first direct link between the amount of sugar circulating in the blood, and how old a person looks.
It found the higher the amount of sugar and high GI carbs a person ate, the older they looked.

Here’s what’s happening. When blood sugar levels are constantly on the high-low cycle that comes from a high sugar and high carb diet, (eating too often between meals has the same effect), sugar molecules permanently bond to proteins, including the collagen in your skin. 

This is a process known as glycation, and produces aptly named compounds called AGES, or Advanced Glycation End Products (AGES), that cross-link with proteins, Dr Williams said.
‘Consequently, tissues become stiff and inflexible, skin becomes tougher, saggier, and wrinkles form often prematurely,’ she added. ‘

Where once we as dermatologists dismissed the idea of diet and pimples, there is now good evidence of a link between unrefined sugars, sweets, milk chocolate, and unrefined carbohydrates with increased incidence of acne breakout,’ she said.
When he puts patients with inflammatory skin conditions, such as acne, psoriasis, and eczema, on diets reducing their intake of refined sugars and dairy products, Dr Lowe explained, their conditions often get better.

‘Changing their diets can reduce the severity of their conditions,’ he said.

Want great skin? Dermatologists reveal which foods they swear by for a healthy glow - and those that never pass their lips, By ANNA MAGEE FOR HEALTHISTA, Daily Mail

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