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Healthy Food
May Help to Prevent Wrinkles
A 2001
study published in the Journal of the American College of Nutrition
found the food people consumed correlated with the amount of skin
wrinkles, measured in a sun exposed area of their skin. It should
be noted that this study showed association, rather than cause
and effect. Many of the foods the people with better skins ate
are known to be healthy foods anyway, so they may have made other
healthy choices in their lives which helped to account for their healthier
skin besides just their diet.
However, since
most of the foods people with less wrinkled skin ate are known to
be nutritious, inexpensive, energy dense whole foods, such as apples
and asparagus, for most people there probably isn't a lot of downside
to incorporating more of the foods associated with less wrinkled skin
into one's daily diet. Many of the foods associated with the more
wrinkled skin are foods health experts often tell people to avoid
or consume in moderation anyway, such as sugar, margarine, jam and
pastries. As such, this study just give people one more possible reason
to make healthy food choices.
Of course,
people with restricted diets due to medications, allergies or other
health concerns should consult with their healthcare providers before
making any diet changes. Personally, I don't do well with whole
grain, low fat dairy products or olive oil, so I would not add
these to my diet even though they are foods that correlated with less
wrinkles in the study.
Among other foods,
study subjects with the least wrinkles had diets high in: