Why do big amounts of sugar in body affect your skin
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Anything you consume eventually makes its way into your skin cells’ sweat glands, which then perspirates sweat, which also affects your skin directly.
Sugar affects your cells; sugar affects skin cells.
Unnatural chemicals in the ingredients of unhealthy food also affect your skin the same way; they are deposited into/transported/released by cells.
That’s why some people have very bad body odor. A lot of it is related to what you consume on top of genetics for how much you sweat.
The artificial flavouring in “chocolate flavoured milk” and “chocolate flavoured cereal” are one of the worst suspects for bad body odor that I’ve noticed personally.
If you exercise after eating/drinking those two things you will smell incredibly bad.
**Too much sugar** ***may*** **affect your skin in the aspect of feeling sticky due to sweat glands releasing more of the unprocessed/unused sugar, but excess sugar affects your stored body fat % more than your skin.**
Other guy is wrong. Being diabetic hurts your skin (specifically in your feet) because sugar damages your nerves, you don’t feel the pain of your skin getting damaged by poor fitting shoes or overwalking etc, so you keep putting pressure on your feet and develop ulcers. The issue is worsened by diabetes disrupting blood supply to your feet
Assuming you mean acne, oily skin, and so on? Sugar makes you body create more oil. Oil is released by the skin. More oil means more likelihood of buildup and blockage in pores, causing acne. It also means more oils for bacteria to eat and cause body odor, and for yeast to eat and multiply and, if your body reacts to them, cause skin issues such as seborrheic dermatitis.
What specifically are you referring to OP?
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