Skincare

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30.     For example, scrimp on vitamin A required for new cell formation and your face may look drier and flakier. Skip vitamin C, needed for collagen formation, and the result could be skin that is slightly thinner, rougher and less elastic. The truth is that if you eat the wrong foods, your skin may even age faster than it should if you eat the right foods. Free radicals created by wrong foods are now thought to be major contributors to ageing skin.

31.     Deficiency of antioxidant vitamins A, C and E can result in reduced immunity which can cause environmental onslaught damage to the skin. Vitamin B2 (riboflavin) deficiency can lead to brown pigmentation or brown spots on the skin. Severe vitamin B2 deficiency can lead to oily skin and hair and small deposits of fat under the skin of cheeks, forehead and behind the ears. Inadequate iron (haemoglobin) in the blood results in pallid (pale) complexion and more prominent under-eye dark circles. Skin is predominantly protein and its deficiency can cause slackened and loose skin.

 Water Woes

32.     The elasticity and softness of your skin is dependent on water, so maximum damage to your skin occurs when you are dehydrated. Dehydration due to insufficient water intake or increased loss by way of evaporation leads to premature ageing. About 16% of the body’s water is stored in the muscles, which will become soft and flabby if you become dehydrated. The dehydrated skin shows in the form of fine lines and dryness. Constipation due to low water intake, as we all know, leads to raised toxin levels and therefore a dull skin.

Sugar – the White Poison

33.     Sugar is regarded as one of the three white poisons injurious to health, the other two being refined starch (maida) and salt. Sugar is not a natural substance and it is foreign to the body. It is the result of an industrial process that refines sugarcane and sugarbeet with the aid of harmful chemicals which strips off all the vitamins, minerals, proteins, enzymes and other nutrients. So it becomes a pure carbohydrate with zero nutrients and empty calories which only induces weight gain. As sugar has no nutrients, its digestion robs many of your body’s precious resources. Vitamins B and C, chromium, calcium, zinc, magnesium, are all needed to digest sugar, which it essentially derives from the body. So the deficiency of these vitamins and minerals depresses the immune function which reduces the