If you’ve got a penchant for sweets, you may be harming more than your waistline and your teeth.

Glycation is a bodily process that impedes healthy activity and damages structures due to the binding of protein molecules to glucose molecules, resulting in the formation of harmful and damaged molecules known as “advanced glycation end products” (AGE). Some scientists have found that by eating too much sugar, the rate of glycation becomes higher.

The formation of wrinkles has been linked to glycation because the building block of healthy skin, collagen, is comprised of protein molecules which become AGE’s through glycation.

While we all know that too much sugar is bad for you anyway, this may be another reason to cut down on those treats. Unfortunately.

This entry was posted on Friday, February 29th, 2008 at 10:06 am and is filed under General Health. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.