Too Many Sweet Food Hair Grow Excess

News Health Articles - Too Many Sweet Food Hair Grow Excess. Eating too many foods high in sugar can be bad for the body. Increase again now that its impact could trigger excessive hair growth on the body.

More than half of women feel less confident or worried about the excessive growth of hair on his body. It is estimated that about 1 in 10 women have excess hair on face and body.

Some things can be a trigger, one of which is to eat foods that contain high levels of sugar, refined carbohydrates such as biscuits and cakes can trigger excessive hair.



"These foods have high glycemic index value, which means they release energy quickly and can cause insulin resistance," said Dr Rina Davison, endocrinology from Whipps Cross University Hospital, London, as quoted from Dailymail, Wednesday (12/7/2011 ).

Insulin is a hormone that controls blood sugar levels. If there is resistance to the hormone becomes less effective in lowering blood sugar so the body must produce more hormones.

The problem is if the high insulin levels may affect the growth factors that make the ovaries produce too much male hormone testosterone that causes hair to grow excessively, such as women who had a thin mustache.

In addition to these foods, some things can also be a factor causing insulin resistance if one is overweight or obese.

Meanwhile, some other conditions can make women have excess hair as South Asian or Mediterranean races tend to have more hair than Causcasian or black people, menopause where testosterone becomes more dominant, as well as people with anorexia.