Welcome to Dishing Up Nutrition, brought to you by nutritional weight and wellness.

We have many shows about the harmful effects sugar has on both your brain and your body.

Today, we are going to specifically address how sugar ages you. We will share with you several foods that speed up your body's aging processes and also share

foods or lifestyle factors that you can implement to slow down that aging process. We will also

share how sugar ages your skin and brings on those wrinkles, something that no one really wants to see

on their face or on their chin or on their forehead or anything like that.

And I am Leah Kleintrot. I'm a registered and licensed dietitian and have been a part of

nutritional weight and wellness for the past eight years.

On one of the recent podcasts that I did with one of my co-hosts,

I talked about some harmful habits that I had coming to nutritional weight and wellness.

And in those years before, I started learning more about real food and eating imbalance.

Some of those harmful habits included eating a low-fat, high-carb, processed foods type of diet.

And really, it did.

It took many years for me to observe this in my body and many years of learning before I really kind of came

to the fact that this does not, this type of eating does not agree with my body. So I realized I had to

make some changes. I got the sugar out of my diet and I started eating real natural fats.

And even in reflecting on that, I think actually my first step

was incorporating those more real natural fats. I was the low fat, no fat queen. If there was a

gram of fat in anything, it had to be off the shelf. So my journey, I started with bringing things

in, those real natural healing foods before

I really focused on getting some of the bad stuff out and it still worked really well.

I still saw the benefits. And as I was researching for this show, high carb, high sugar foods,

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