(YahooBeauty) - Here come the holidays. It’s become all about indulging in comfort food, sugary confections, and wine. However, you might want to stop and rethink those treats, there is a serious downside beyond the extra calories. Nigma Talib, ND, a London-based naturopathic doctor, aesthetician and author of the forthcoming Younger Skin Starts in the Gut: A 4-Week Program to Identify and Eliminate Your Skin-Aging Trigger—Gluten, Alcohol, Dairy or Sugar believes these foods wreak havoc on our faces in different ways, along with accelerating aging. “These substances weaken the good bacteria in your gut while strengthening those that activate inflammatory mediators,” Talib tells Yahoo Beauty.  The result: telltale breakouts, wrinkles and inflammation, depending on what your body is reacting to.

The truth is these foods have been affecting us as long as we’ve been eating them, but it’s also worth noting that there’s more likely more of them in our diets than ever before—especially at this time of year. “We’ve gotten more aware of the outcomes of eating these foods because we’re noticing how we feel when we indulge, and how eliminating—or at least cutting way back on them—makes a night and day difference in our appearance,” says Dr. Talib. Her advice: give them up, reap the benefits and then slowly add them back in on a very occasional basis (using an 80%/20% rule). “Your complexion is telling you what you need to give up or pull back from,” Dr. Talib says.  “And if you do, the changes you see coming from the inside will inspire you to continue on.”  Here, Talib breaks down each trigger and explains exactly what it’s doing to your skin. Be prepared, it’s not pretty.

Symptoms of wine face include dryness and wrinkles around the eyes.

Wine Face
Most common symptoms: pronounced lines or redness between the eyes, droopy eyelids, large pores, dehydrated skin with feathery lines across the cheeks.