5 Surprising Ways You're Ruining Your Skin

I agree with your high impact running effects on your skin's elasticity. My best friend is and avid runner while I, with two small children had to stay in with the ergometer and eliptical. I also enjoy vigorous walks when permitted. But at our class reunion it was obvious I had much more youthful skin, not only was my skin smoother but I had no liver spots or baggy eyes. Thanks for getting this info out there. For some it may not be too late to change your routine a little. Now I don't quiet dread 48 as bad!

Uhm...tap water is actualy just as good as water out of a jug, and not everyone can afford a water filter. Tap water is also safer than bottled water which gives off chemicals from the plastic, especially if you reuse them too often. Bottled water is over priced, anyway. You're just paying for the label. AND where are you getting your information about running bening bad for your skin? Where are the results from THAT experiment? Who's "Dr. Gross"?

What's the point of having nice skin if you are obese from not exercising?

Oh gosh, like the other comments I agree, ladies, lifespan and health come from vigorous activity. We're also American's meaning we may not eat the best, therefore we have to balance it out with something like running. Get a grip beauty magazines. Fast walking is not going to help us fit into our jeans like running may. Unless you alter your diet. I'm slightly disturbed by this advice.

As nutritionist and personal trainer, I agree with the other comments left. In a society that is slowly become more and more overweight it is negligible to suggest that anyone stop exercising. Running is good for your heart, it encourages bone density through light impact (something everyone on those elliptical machines, who don't have a joint injuries, are missing out on)and it helps elevate your metabolism which in turn equals ore cellular turn over which equals new younger looking skin cells. Saying that running is going to cause fat to slip down your face is like saying that belly fat will move to your hips, it physically can't. Fat is attached by tissues holding it place. Your body also decides where it will lose fat from first and where it will place it based on genetics. If you really want younger looking skin stay active and eat a colorful diet rich in antioxidants and vitamins that help prevent and reverse the effects free radicals have on your body. Studies are also showing that the effects of eating a diet like this can also have a postitve on lowering your risk for cancer double bonus.

Walking IS NOT a substitute for running!!!!!!! (Unless you're pregnant or injured) You can go ahead and keep telling yourself that walking 4 miles is "better" than running 4 miles. The reason you may be losing the "fat" pads under your eyes by running is perhaps because you are burning twice as many calories, developing twice as much muscle tone, reaching higher endorphin levels, higher heart rate levels, increasing your stamina........ than you would if you were walking. P.S. Walking is great...... just don't compare the two.

Hey, in one of my studies, I found out that if you get old, your skin wrinkles. I would advice you all to not get old.

heavy smoking and heavy drinking can make you older and look older!

ms Claire is not telling you what really makes you lovey lady's look old before your time..number one stress..2 street drugs.. three smoking..4 the sun..five stress..yes i counted stress twice that the biggest killer of us all

The article left out SMOKING. After tanning - smoking is the worst thing you can do to your skin. Smoking causes wrinkles and gives you smokers face.

Also consider that bottled water does not contain flouride which is very bad for your teeth. Drinking tap saves you money and your teeth.

Oh this goes out for MLE..your so right there..I'm 51..they take me as 26 to 30...YAY..exercise everyone, eating the right foods..that's the key, and Live, Laugh, and Love.

sorry to say but I squint all the time, I hate sunglasses and I don't have wrinkles and bad skin around the eyes. i'm turning 40 next year and still look early 30's

I run and love to run and have been running for about 40 years. I'm 50 now but still look a good 30. (I travel a lot and I am stopped at immigrations all over the world to verify the validity of my person when they see the age on my papers). OK, I'm one of the lucky ones. I run for endurance but I am coming more and more to understand that running is not a natural activity.

Short sprints, jumping rope, burbees and the like are much more beneficial without the negatives of running. I will advise my children not to take up running other than sprints.

uhm...really don't know what to say, other than i'm really not sure about any of it.

this article's by marie claire. not sure if its accurate though. :P

Smoking should be at number 1. Closely followed by drinking. Exercise is bad for your skin ? Huh ? Squinting ? Lol. Ridiculous.....

Running is bad now? Wow.

I can't really take seriously an article that a) doesn't qualify its "expert" and b) uses language that even my fifteen-year-old sister would consider juvenile. ("Sesh"? "Prob"?)

Just another story trying to convince you to spend more money.