Losing Weight and Feeling Great

Archive for May, 2008

I mentioned a few posts back that I was curious about if dieting (losing weight) could effect how sensitive your skin becomes to sunlight.  I trolled around the internet looking for a connection.  I kind of found one, and it has to do with the effect that your blood sugar has to do with the skin on your face.

If you’re a yo-yo dieter, you’re probably on a diet and off a diet.  If you suffer intense food cravings between meals, your blood sugar is probably spiking and diving.  And it’s this that ends up showing up on your rface.

High blood sugar in particular (and not just diabetes) can cause changes in your capillaries.  These changes can show up on your skin as inflammation — rosacea being one of the more commonly-seen inflammations.  These inflammations turn around and accelerate the aging process.  Yikes!

You can read the entire article, published on Discovery Health, here.

I guess it’s one more reason to limit the amount of sugar (directly linked with blood glucose spikes) in our diets, weight loss or not!  No need to look older before our time.