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| There is a 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 a person ate, the older they looked |
Not only are skin specialists now convinced of the link between what we eat, and the look and feel of our skin – from acne to wrinkles, to sagging and even the skin’s own sun-protection – increasingly large scientific studies are also showing which foods do what to skin.
Hearteningly, this means that depressing old aged: ‘it’s in the genes’ isn’t the whole story, and there is plenty you can do to influence the state of your face.
‘Only 20 per cent of the way you age is down to genetic factors,’ says leading celebrity dermatologist Dr Neetu Nirdosh, whose client list includes Kelly Brook and Frieda Pinto.
‘The other 80 per cent is governed by lifestyle factors such as smoking and sun damage.
'A large part of that is diet, which can affect not only wrinkles and fine lines, but also hyper-pigmentation and acne’.
WHAT NOT TO EAT
It’s never too early to adopt a skin healthy diet geared towards anti-ageing, says Dr Stefanie Williams, dermatologist and founder of www.eudelo.com.
In fact, a study published in the British Journal of Dermatology found that ageing effects the skin – such as collagen breakdown and skin thinning – typically begin around 35.
