Does Sugar Cause Acne?
Since clear, healthy skin and good overall health go hand in hand then since excessive sugar consumption causes problems for your body in general then YES, ABSOLUTELY, sugar does provoke skin problems.
And what I mean by excessive is eating candies, sugary soda, cakes, cookies and other junk food with hidden sugars.
Hidden Sugars
You could be eating a lot more sugar than you realise. Just about all prepackaged meals and other junk foods contain sugar to make them more palatable. And because these food companies want to hide the truth from you they often dress it up as something else. Here are the trickier ones to spot (i.e. the ones that don’t have “sugar” in the name):
- Agave nectar
- Barley malt
- Blackstrap molasses
- Buttered syrup
- Cane crystals
- Cane juice crystals
- Caramel
- Carob syrup
- Corn syrup
- Corn sweetener
- Corn syrup solids
- Crystalline fructose
- Dextrin
- Dextran
- Dextrose
- Diastatic malt
- Diatase
- D-mannose
- Evaporated cane juice
- Ethyl maltol
- Florida Chrystals
- Free Flowing
- Fructose
- Fruit juice
- Fruit juice concentrate
- Galactose
- Glucose Glucose solids
- Golden syrup
- Grape juice concentrate
- HFCS
- High-fructose corn Syrup
- Honey
- Lactose
- Malt syrup
- Maltodextrin
- Maltose
- Mannitol
- Maple syrup
- Molasses
- Panocha
- Refiner’s syrup
- Rice Syrup
- Sorbitol
- Sorghum syrup
- Sucrose
- Treacle
Bottom line
If you want something sweet then eat some raw, natural, unprocessed fruit!
It’s simple and as Nature intended. Sugar from fruit BTW comes packaged with
- fibre,
- water,
- antioxidants and other
- vital minerals.
Compare that with what junk food comes packaged with-
- salt,
- fat and
- chemicals!
