TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - Sugar in this day of age is widely contained in almost every food you consume daily. Either in the form of pastries or Indonesian traditional peanut butter food pastes, not to mention street foods such as ice creams, up to savory delicacies that also contain sugar.

But have you ever stopped for a moment to think how sugar consumption affects your skin health? Here are three effects of sugar towards your skin according to Boldsky.

1. It dehydrates your skin

Sugar sucks out all the water from the skin cells and leaves it dehydrated. This causes the skin to sag and undernourished. Hence, if you consume a lot of sugar, you should drink large quantities of water in order to stay hydrated and prevent your skin from sagging.

2. Sugar can damage your skin

Sugar damages the collagen beneath our skin. Collagen is a substance present in our body that holds the skin together and keeps it firm. Your skin can lose its elasticity and age faster for the fact that the glucose present in sugar weighs down the collagen and also breaks Type 3 (strong type) collagen to Type 1 (weak type) collagen and weakens it.

3. Sugar can lead to skin inflammation

The glucose present in sugar makes the collagen present underneath the skin rigid. It attaches itself to the collagen and prevents it from functioning properly. Thus when collagen stops working properly, our skin loses its elasticity and this causes wrinkles and lines and also results in skin inflammation or rashes.

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