10 Worst Foods For Your Skin
Our skin is the largest organ of our body and we all want it to look healthy and beautiful. You must have heard the saying “you are what you eat”. This is true on many levels. Everything that we eat or drink leaves either good or bad effects on our skin.
If you eat junk or unhygienic food, and do not let your skin get proper nutrition, it will result in poor skin conditions like acne, blackheads and early signs of aging whereas, a healthy diet will help you get a flawless skin.
Patricia Farris, MD, a dermatologist and author of The Sugar Detox explains that a poor diet is casts as bad effects on your skin as smoking cigarettes does. We all know that cigarette smoking results in wrinkles and other signs of aging. Just like that, an unhealthy diet causes inflammation. This inflammation causes oxidative stress that ends up damaging the collagen and DNA that makes you look old.
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These are the 10 foods that you should totally avoid if you love your skin.
1. Rice Cakes
There was a time when rice cakes were preferred by super models as they have a low fat content and were thought to be fat erasers. But now, people need to be aware that rice cakes are not healthy at all. Their nutrition levels are very low and they increase the blood sugar levels in our body that is not good for us.
Rice cakes have simple carbs in them and our body metabolizes them by converting them into glucose; just the way it metabolizes the sugar. Valori Treloar, MD, dermatologist and author of The Clear Skin Diet says that this conversion damages our wrinkle fighting proteins like collagen.
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Thanks for these informations Author, now I can really determine on what foods are good for the health.
Thanks very helpful
I don’t eat any fast food anymore since I changed my diet. I don’t use cow’s milk or any animal products. I eat only a plant based diet. I don’t eat any refined sugars. I make everything myself. I use the unrefined sugar. The only skin issue I have is since I turned 30, I have really oilly skin especially my face, even my eyelids. I’m even using less oil in my cooking & don’t know why. I’m almost 35 now & the oil from my skin hurts my eyes. Is there any suggestions for what I might be eating that may be causing this?
Milk? not good for the skin? Shut Up!!!
Not beer and alcohol? Not old meat that has been sitting in a restaurant for a few days or even the one that had been sitting at the grocery store after the animal has been killed for days? Anything that is fermented is going to be tough for your body.
Here we go again! 10 worst foods listed, yet only one is mentioned….
good to know this
Interesting. I read one article and it says eat this and I come here and it says no avoid 100% . I’m so confused!!!!
I have itching skin some thing I have eaten not sure small lumps around hands and lower legs .and on top of my head I am on 20 units inline. I am 70 years old .