With its two layers- the epidermis and the dermis- skin is the largest organ in the surface of the human body, helps to function the regulation, protection, and sensation of the human body and supports all other organs by protecting them from outer calamities. Regulating the temperature of the body, bridging the nervous system, and alerting the
body to danger, all are the function done by the skin keep you well and good. What will happen if skin goes out of order? It is just you can’t think of it. Some foods injurious to skin health and try to avoid consuming these foods otherwise it will make your skin harder, swelling and puffy and wrinkled. Here we discussed some food are responsible for common skin diseases & harmful for skin.
Surplus caffeine
Tea, coffee, some types of chocolates and soda added with caffeine are the sources of caffeine and known as the instant stimulant but highly diuretic in nature. After taking all these, if you don’t take the proper amount of water, it will dehydrate your body as well as make your skin dry. This environment in your body can accelerate the aging process and may work as a skin thinner.
Alcohol
Psoriasis, a skin disease makes red, itchy, scaly patches is caused for the excessive taking of alcohol. It is also diuretic in nature, also hampers the secretion of some anti diuretic hormone, as a result, it lessens the fluid level in the human body as well as dry up the skin and make it pale in color and weak.
Beverages
Carbonated drinks and fruit juice with excess sugar and chemical ingredients are also hideous for the skin health. Some diet-beverage is less harmful because of being that is sugar free, but the caffeine factor can dehydrate the skin and some chemical ingredients can be work as an allergen for the skin lead to rash and acne breakout.
Foods that imbalance water level
Wrinkled skin is the most common problem in modern time because of the food habit and lifestyle. Many popular foods that are available in the store can imbalance the water level in the human body and lessen the moisture level resulting wrinkled skin. These types of foods are also responsible for acne and general dehydration. Popcorn, Parsley, Asparagus are of that type unhealthy of skin.
Foods containing excess salt
Salty foods can affect your skin in two ways. Firstly, these types of foods contain sodium and the body use additional water to eliminate sodium from it resulting dry skin, wrinkled skin. Secondly, excess salt consuming is responsible to keep hold of extra fluid resulting inflammation in the skin and puffy looking. Table salt also does the same disaster for the skin.
Foods with excess sugar
Excess sugar in the foods can make the inner environment acidic and lessen the capacity of fluid storage in the human body resulting dehydration. As the acidic environment weaken may lead the skin to rash and acne breakouts, loss of elasticity, dehydration and premature wrinkling. The aging factors in the skin also related to consuming excess sugary foods and even honey also hurtful for the skin.
Processed foods
Processed foods are a lack of many natural ingredients. While processing a food, some chemical ingredients are added to it and eliminated some essential elements such as fibers from it. Fibers are essential to flush out by-product produced in the body that detoxifies the body naturally. Toxins in the body can affect the skin, moreover, sometimes, it contains a high amount of sodium or salt to preserve it which resulting dehydration in the body as well as in the skin. White flour canned foods are of this genre.
Foods that accelerate producing free radicals in the body
Free radicals cast a bad effect on the skin. Unlike other cells, free radicals can destroy the DNA structure of the skin cells as well as demolish the collagen and elastin in the skin resulting in wrinkles, dryness, and sensitivity. Besides pollutions in the big cities, some foods like foods rich in carbohydrates, oily and greasy.
Red meat
Red meat is the other killer of the skin health, especially the fat laden cut of it. The saturated fat found in the red meat is responsible for it. Over consuming of red meat can dehydrate the body as well as the skin because the body absorbs so much water from cells to metabolize red meat. To avoid dry up the body, choose the lean cut of red meat, that is unprocessed in nature and the visible fat is removed from it
Deep fried foods
Deep fried foods contain some cell-damaging oxidants and produce free radicals in the human body. When foods are fried deeply in hot, a changed has been happening in the structure by destroying the structure of antioxidants and nutrients like Vitamin E, Omega-3 and others resulting accelerated the producing of free radicals. As a result, deep fried foods are responsible to destroy the DNA structure of the skin cells as well as responsible for some other skin diseases.
Artificial sweeteners and other ingredients
Synthetic ingredients used in the foods such as artificial sweeteners, colors and flavor work a barrier to the system of the flushing out the waste product and toxin in the human body. When the human body fails to flush out these waste products, the free radical producing rate increases and these free radicals affect the skin as well as the whole body.
Weight-loss diet
Most of the weight-loss diets, also known as crash diets are diuretic in nature. Such types of foods are very popular for the people who want to lose some weight excess for them. As such foods may dehydrate the body, it can be unfavorable for the skin unlike other foods responsible for dehydration of the body as well as skin. Depending only on crash foods to make the weight loss process faster may also responsible for nutritional deprivation and lack of balance diet also deleterious to skin health.