By Linda Saether CNN ATLANTA, Georgia (CNN) -- Before you grab that leftover piece of Halloween candy, you might want to rethink the decision. It could cost you, in wrinkles. It now appears the sweet stuff might make us happier and possibly more hyper, but also make us look older. Foods that turn into glucose in the body also can make you look older, researchers say. 学者表示, 会在你体内转化成葡萄糖的食物可能会让你看起来更老。 A study in the British Journal of Dermatology breaks down the science of how this works, putting the aging blame on a process called glycation. Glycation occurs when sugars -- not just refined sugar, but anything that turns into glucose in your body -- are eaten and the glucose hits your bloodstream. As they float along, they search out and latch on to proteins and form a new molecule called advanced glycation end products, or appropriately shorted to AGEs. 一份由英国皮肤医学期刊发表的研究显示，导致老化的原因可能是起因於体内的glyca- -tion。Glycation是指食用糖类後在体内会转化成葡萄糖进入血液的过程，所指的糖类 不仅仅限於精致加工过的糖制品。葡萄糖会搜寻并依附在蛋白质（不太确定是要叫 蛋白质，还是朊）上并形成名叫Advanced Glycation End Products (AGEs)的新分子。 The more sugar you eat, the more AGEs you produce. As they multiply, these molecules wreak havoc with adjacent proteins. The most vulnerable of these proteins are just the ones we want to stay strong: collagen and elastin. They are the compounds responsible for keeping our skin firm and elastic. 当你食用愈多的糖，身体就会产生愈多的AGEs，而过多的AGEs会破坏其他相邻的蛋白质 /朊。而其中如collagen和elastin是我们最想留住的，但却最易受到损害，他们主要维 持皮肤紧致有弹性。 The result is sagging, wrinkled skin. 後果就是松弛又布满皱纹的皮肤。 But before you throw in the towel and start saving for plastic surgery, there is some good news about this newly reported form of sugar blues. There are some things you can do to put the sticky sweet damage into rewind. The first place to start is probably the most obvious: Limit the sugar in your diet. Kerry Neville, a registered dietitian and spokeswoman for the American Dietetic Association, says, "The lower you can get the added sugar in your diet, because they aren't adding anything to your diet, the better." （所以减少多余的糖份吸收） But those added sugars can be hard to ferret out. "Eliminating them all is hard," Neville contends. "Often it is a matter of where you are getting the added sugar. Food labels don't spell out added sugars," so look for words such as corn sweetener, corn syrup, sucrose or sorghum, to name a few. （多注意食品是否有使用玉米糖浆，蔗糖，高梁糖浆等添加物） Overall, the latest finding about wrinkles sits well with the Seattle, Washington-based nutritionist, because, as Neville points out, "Americans eat too much sugar, and it appears that the threat of making them fat doesn't seem to discourage excess sugar eating. So this latest wrinkle scare might just do the trick. That is great." But Dr. Darren Casey, a dermatologist and dermatological surgeon in Atlanta, Georgia, isn't so worried about potential skin damage from sugar. "Sun and smoking are the leading cause of wrinkles," he said. His best advice, aside from getting plenty of antioxidants in your diet, is to take "a chewable vitamin C." （不过也有医师指出皮肤老化的主因还是阳光和菸害，除了尽量在饮食中摄取足够的抗 　氧化物外，可以多补充维他命Ｃ嚼碇或软糖〔可以嚼的都行〕。 And whether your skin is sugar damaged or just environmentally challenged, Casey says, you can't go wrong by using products that contain retinoids, which are a class of compounds related chemically to vitamin A. Those products, whether over the counter or prescription, are the best to help soften fine lines or wrinkles, which in turn will make you look younger and may just make you act sweeter, no sugar necessary. （对於已经受到伤害的皮肤，使用含有retinoids[近似维他命A的组成物]成份的产品 将有效减缓老化症状。） 报导来源: http://edition.cnn.com/2007/HEALTH/diet.fitness/11/01/hfh.sugar.skin/index.html -- An English Club in Kaohsiung http://aeclub.b.forumable.net --

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