IT’LL HELP YOU LOOK BETTER, T00

QUITE apart from the serious implications for your health, raised blood sugar also makes you look older by attacking the collagen and elastin molecules in your skin. This, in turn, makes your face saggy, baggy and wrinkled.

In a striking demonstration of this, researchers from Leiden University in the Netherlands measured the blood sugar of more than 600 volunteers. They then asked a group of independent assessors to try to guess their age.

People with low blood sugar were scored as significantly younger than their real age, while the wrinklies with high blood sugar scored badly.

The researchers estimate that every additional millimole per litre increase in blood sugar adds five months to your perceived age.