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Mattress effect
Sugarthat we ate turns into glucose: this is the norm. Glucose molecules attach themselves to protein fibers in a simple chemical reaction: this is also a common daily process. Fibers are also involved of collagen: This protein makes the skin firm and smooth, acting as a kind of skeleton – like a spring in a mattress. With age, collagen becomes less and less, and the “mattress” loses its shape.
In the same way, excess glucose acts on the skin, which “sticks” collagen fibers. “Sugared” collagen becomes tough, deformed, loses elasticity, and the skin ceases to be elastic. Expression wrinkles become sharper, and those that leave the passage of time and ultraviolet light on the face are added to them.
Less sugar
Give up sweets altogether, so as not to let the sugar cover your face with wrinkles? Such sacrifices are not necessary: it is enough to follow the recommendations of the World Health Organization (WHO) and make sure that the daily amount of sugar “in its pure form” does not exceed 10% of all calories eaten per day. For example, if you consume 2000 calories daily, then sugar level – 50 grams, that is, a little over 6 teaspoons per day (or half a bottle of standard sweet soda).
However, doctors believe that this dose is too much, especially when you consider that in today’s average diet there are too many carbohydrates (which inevitably turn into the same glucose). And also if you remember that the norm of sugar is made up of “pure sugar”, which is found not only in the refined sugar box, but also, for example, in fruit juices, as well as in many ready-made products (where it is often hidden under mysterious synonymous names).
Examine the label on the bag of muesli or instant cereal you are used to eating every day, and do the same research with all the foods that end up on your table every day.