High Fructose Corn Syrup and Wrinkles

August 26, 2010 admin 2 comments

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Hi,

Look, my take on fitness and health is to not only be healthy and fit, but to look it also. Call it my vanity, but that is the way I am.

So what does High Furctose Corn Syrup have to do with wrinkles.

My guess is that most of us think that only old people have wrinkles. And that does have some truth to it.

But, with more and more junk food being consumed and more pollutants in the air and water, younger people are getting wrinkles.

That does not make you look good.

So how does HFCS make wrinkles? It is through a process called glycation.

Glycation is the process where sugars bind to amino acids in the blood and turn into AGE products. AGE stands for advanced glycation end products. And just like its acronym it causes you to age.

It also has been linked to inflammation, diabetes, insulin resistance, kidney disease, blood vessel diseases and even Alzheimer’s disease.

Not a pretty picture. Oh, and yes it also screws up your skin and causes wrinkles and age spots.

The AGE products bind to collagen and causes it to get all tangled up and twisted.

Now sugar does this to a degree. But the lab altered corn syrup into high fructose corn syrup turns the AGE on and it acts like an after burner affecting your whole body.

So not only does high fructose corn syrup turn your skin into wrinkles it does the same thing internally.

So if you have to have your sugar fix every day, try not to make it HFCS.

Thanks,

Mike Val

AGE products bind to collagen, causing it to get twisted and tangled. This shows up as age spots, wrinkles, and everything else that makes skin look old and crumbly.