Zits Skin Care

Why Do I Get Zits When I Eat Sugar?

Many people believe that eating a lot of sweets or sugary content may lead to acne, spots, and pimples. Do you share the same belief as well? If yes, stay tuned to find the actual cause and spot your mistaken behavior towards your skin and diet.

Sugar and Zits

Sugar isn’t the main cause of acne rather hormonal fluctuations are responsible for acne, zits, and pimples. Sugar and sweet don’t affect your skin directly but they trigger your hormones.

How Sugar Effect Your Skin?

We are going to highlight the role of sugar in bringing up these zits, acne, and spots on your skin. As you all know that sugar is well-known for its oxidative properties. This oxidative nature triggers zits and acne on your skin. It increases the insulin level in your blood by changing itself into glucose. It creates an ideal situation for inflammation. Foods like white bread, candy, fried foods, chocolates, caffeine, ice cream, sodas, soft drinks etc. are mainly responsible for elevating the insulin levels that further leads to inflammation.  The higher levels of insulin in your blood will produce a lot of skin oil.

Effects

A lot of oil produced on skin blocks the pores. It also darkens the complexion.