Cut down sugars and make your skin glow

Tips on eliminating added sugar from your diet

While we all love sugar, we only need it in moderation. Unfortunately, we are no longer eating it in small volumes. On the other hand, we are gorging on sugar and it is hurting not only our health (obesity is an outcome of excess consumption or sugars that eventually convert to fat). We should be consuming less than ten teaspoons of added sugar each day but we consume double that amount. Believe it or not but a can of soda contains enough sugar for one day. If you can cut down your sugar consumption and stop the cravings for sweet foods, not only can you manage your weight better, you can also do something about your skin. In a separate article, we have already discussed how to cut fat from your diet.

Susan Ciminelli, the founder of a luxury spa in New York, suggests in her book "The Ciminelli Solution: A 7-day plan for radiant skin" that we cut back on added sugar to cleanse our system. It is fine to consume naturally present sugar, for example, in fruits. She also recommends that you eliminate dairy products and other processed foods and replace them by fruits, vegetables, whole grains, etc. While she is not recommending a raw diet, she is clearly arguing that eating processed foods do more damage to your skin than you can imagine.

How to cut down sugar consumption?

• Drink water. Lots of it. We also recommend plain water and you can add fresh lemon or lime for flavor but nothing else. No artificial flavors recommended.

• If your addicted to carbonated beverages, please try to kick the habit. In the meantime, stick to their diet/low calorie versions.

• Fruit juices are good but not the ones from the supermarket, unless you are absolutely sure that it does not contain anything but 100% juice. So the best way to drink fruit juice is to make your own juice with a home juicer.

• Read labels carefully. Almost everything that you buy in the supermarket, especially processed foods, contains added sugar. And mind you, the manufacturers may use confusing names rather than calling it sugar. So be careful when you read names like fructose, dextrose, sucrose, and maltose. If you don't know the name, don't buy it. Simple.

Within a matter of weeks you will see that you will not only feel better, your skin will look much better.

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