Sweet Food Makes You Old Faster
Sweet-eat foods are very tasty on the tongue. But did you know that too often eat sweet foods that can make you older faster?
Medically, aging generally occurs because of the aging process is influenced by inflammatory cells. Therefore, if you want to look young, you have to avoid the factors that may cause inflammation.
According to dr. Nina Kemala Sari, Specialist of the Division of Geriatric Medicine Department of Medicine Faculty of medicine RSCM, cause inflammation usually come from foods, such as sweet foods, rich in simple carbohydrates, are also rich in fat.
Nina reveals, young people are generally well preserved biological age. This is due to the inflammatory process cells are delayed, because the selection of appropriate food.
“So they were usually eat low-sugar foods, and low in saturated fat. So we can delay biological age,” she said.
She explained, someone who has signs of both biological age can be seen from well-controlled blood pressure, have a gym at the time of the move, handheld power of good, sharp thinking, glowing skin, and eyes shining.
“So if that means young people, younger biological age than chronological age. For example the age of 70 years, as people age 50,” he added.
Sugar itself, good for the body if useful as a source of complex carbohydrates, especially those derived from fruits. But there is sugar that is not good, that is rich in simple carbohydrates (white sugar, brown sugar).
So good source of complex carbohydrates taken. But if simple carbohydrates (white sugar, red) that will make old fast.
Nina also shows how the choice of food can affect one’s long life. He gave examples of people of Okinawa are known to have aged the longest and healthiest in the world. When viewed from the food pyramid, at the peak of their food pyramid (the least eaten) is a sweet food.
We have to get used to eat do not use sugar. All can be as familiar. If you do not need syrup do not drink syrup. If you want a sweet, choose fruit.
