The most harmful foods for the skin

After this article, you will think again before you eat another chocolate bar. And at the same time, you will find out which beauty products will help sweet tooth prevent wrinkles, inevitable with high sugar consumption. By the way, not only sweets affect the condition of the skin.

Top 3 most harmful products for the skin

The skin is a real fan of PP, that is, proper nutrition. It is worth going on a rigid starvation diet, as it loses its radiance, freshness and beautiful shade. And if you get carried away with unhealthy food, then it’s not far from premature signs of aging. What foods do your skin especially dislike?

Foods with a high glycemic index indirectly damage collagen and elastin fibers.

1. Sugar

Sugar leads a whole group of products that are broken down in the body into glucose molecules. This group includes all foods with a high glycemic index, including bread, rice, dried fruits. Glucose is one of the main participants in the process of glycation – damage and bonding of collagen and elastin threads in the dermis.

“As a result, the protein support “mattress” seems to be caked and clumps, unable to provide elasticity,” says Vichy medical expert Ekaterina Turubara.

What to do? By an effort of will, exclude sweets from the diet and limit the intake of simple carbohydrates.

“First of all, you should give up sweet carbonated drinks (the negative effect of sugar increases carbon dioxide) and all kinds of snacks (bread and other snacks that seem healthy),” advises Ekaterina Turubara.

As for cosmetics, include products with antioxidants that block free radicals and special creams that prevent glycation, the adhesion of collagen fibers, into your skincare routine.

2. Excess animal fats

No, we do not encourage anyone to become a vegetarian. On the contrary, we remind you that animal fats are essential.

“They are a substrate for the synthesis of sex hormones,” says Ekaterina Turubara. A complete rejection of red meat threatens with iron deficiency anemia and painful pallor.

It’s all about balance and quality. It is optimal to eat 2-3 servings of red meat per week, while strictly limiting the amount of sausages and other processed proteins.

The biggest danger is fatty meat cooked on an open fire: a ruddy, appetizing crust resulting from the burning of fats is a source of free radicals and carcinogens.

Do you need them? Of course not. So barbecue is a dish that you can afford only occasionally.

3. Salt

It is not as unconditionally harmful as sugar, but we ourselves are to blame for the fact that this product was on the list of “pests”. We eat too much salt. Chips, crackers, marinades, pickles lead to an excess of salt in the body. What does this threaten us with? That’s right, fluid retention in the subcutaneous fat and, as a result, swelling.

Deal with puffiness:

  • lymphatic drainage massage;

  • cold, such as cold compresses;

  • time – the body itself will remove excess fluid.

But these are all short term solutions. With a tendency to edema, salty foods will have to be abandoned.

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What can replace the “forbidden fruits”

1. Fruit

The benefits of sugar alternatives such as stevia remain open for now. In addition, the release of glucose causes not only sugar, but the entire carbohydrate group.

Replace cakes with fruit – they will provide the body with the optimal dose of carbohydrates, vitamins and fiber.

Of course, it is not easy to give up carbohydrates, but taste preferences change quite quickly. Refined sugar, white flour products, processed rice, etc. can be replaced with fruit. And not bananas and grapes, which have a lot of fructose, but apples – this way you will provide the body with vitamins and fiber.

2. Fish and vegetable oils

Unlike red meat, these foods are rich in healthy fats – omega-3, -6 and -9 fatty acids. Their lack in the diet has a negative impact on health, and therefore on beauty, leading to such consequences as:

  • dryness and dullness of the skin;

  • hair loss and brittleness.

Do not forget to regularly eat fish, preferably fatty varieties, and dress salads with vegetable oils. Only not refined, but the first cold pressing.

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Cosmetics against glycation

If you are not yet able to give up desserts that provoke the “sugaring” of collagen fibers, then at least support your skin with anti-glycation cosmetics.

Antiglycation cream for mature skin AGE Interrupter, SkinCeuticals, targets the formation of advanced glycation end products, stimulates collagen synthesis to restore skin elasticity and prevent the formation of wrinkles. In the composition – blueberry myrtle extract, anti-aging molecule proxylan and phytosphingosine, which restores the protective barrier.

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Cosmetics with antioxidants

Moisturizing Botanical Face Cream “Rose Water” for dry and sensitive skin, Garnier

Formulated with 96% ingredients of natural origin, this cream is formulated with natural antioxidant (rose water) to protect and comfort skin.

Antioxidant youth concentrate LiftActiv, Vichy

Promises to revive tired, dull skin in 10 days. The guarantee is a carefully calibrated set of antioxidants: vitamins E and C (15%), neohesperidin and maritime pine polyphenol. All this is supported by hyaluronic acid.

Double action youth concentrate Advanced Génifique Sensitive, Lancôme

The new version of the legendary product is enriched with an antioxidant complex with ferulic acid and vitamin E, which increase the skin’s resistance to negative external influences.

Anti-aging cream for normal and combination skin Blue Therapy Multi-Defender, SPF 25, Biotherm

It contains a protective complex with algae, baicalin and vitamin E, which prevent the negative effects of free radicals and help the skin survive the stress caused by UV radiation painlessly. Helps prevent skin aging.

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