How does weight affect the skin?
Frequent weight fluctuation, especially if it happens too quickly in short periods of time can have really big affect to your skin. As you know, skin is the largest organ in the human body. The way you treat your skin will take effect to your entire body. Fat deposits may even help the development of skin diseases like psoriasis, for example. Decrease of weight in such cases is not enough to overcome skin problems, but certainly can help.
The stretches, for example, are a result from changes in collagen of the skin and it is an effect from expanding beyond its borders. When collagen is not sufficient, the veins expand and form a violet-red stretch marks. After a time your skin loses its pigmentation and stretch marks remain as white.
This can happen during pregnancy and also in drastic diet, so better avoid it. I mean the diet.
Normally increase of your weight is resulted from increasing the amount of food you eat. So, figuratively speaking, you are “flooding” your body with extra fat, sugar and preservatives.
Note that excess sugar is a major helper in the process of aging of the skin, since it attacks and preventing new collagen production.
On the other side is the rapid weight loss.
Do not be fooled that the injuries in this process are smaller. In rapid weight loss, skin may not react quickly enough and easily, and you will see the effect in the area of abdomen, thighs, arms and even face. This is why doctors and nutritionists deny fast diets and advising their patients to choose a healthy diet combined with exercises.
Fact, a healthy lifestyle, combined with appropriate sports program may make you look younger. If you add antioxidants and vitamins to a well-balanced diet and reduce the amount of sugar, you will enable your body to reduce the level of natural collagen.
The healthy diet is based on fruits and vegetables, proteins, like chiken and fish, and mainly on low fat products.
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