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Saturday, November 28, 2009

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You are what you eat (at least when it comes to wrinkles)



I'm so crazy interested in why some people seem to start to age quickly and others look like they're 20, even when they have a 25-year-old kid. Like, what the heck is Rachel Zoedoing wrong (besides rocking the 'tox )? Because either she's lying about her age or has the worst skincare routine on the planet, right? Since Ms. Zoe has been fighting the Scary Skinny label for years, it reminds me of a very interesting study out of Monash University in Australia where many elderly subjects offered up their wrinkles in the name of science. Specifically, researchers found that what you're sticking down your gullet is a good predictor of how many wrinkles you have to fight. Maybe the question shouldn't be what Raisinface is doing to her skin, but rather what she's feeding her piehole. Check out the bad news, Diet Coke and cake lovers:

Foods associated with less wrinkling

In the Monash study, less skin wrinkling in the elderly was associated with higher intakes of:

  • Total fat
  • Mono-unsaturated fat
  • Olive oil and olives
  • Fish (especially fatty fish, such as sardines)
  • Reduced fat milk and milk products, such as yogurt
  • Eggs
  • Nuts and legumes (especially lima and broad beans)
  • Vegetables (especially leafy greens, spinach, eggplant, asparagus, celery, onions, leeks and garlic)
  • Whole-grain cereals
  • Fruit and fruit products (especially prunes, cherries, apples and jams)
  • Tea
  • Water
  • Zinc (foods which contain zinc include seafood, lean meat, milk and nuts).
Find out which foods are associated with more wrinkling.

--Wendy

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Comments 1-6 of 6
  • BettyM's Avatar
    Posted by BettyM Sun Dec 14, 2008 5:47am PST

    I don't understand the first "total fat" item on the list. All the other items make good sense to me. Anyone else have the same problem?

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  • mariana's Avatar
    Posted by mariana Wed Dec 17, 2008 8:28am PST

    I believe total fat refers your total fat intake, meaning it's the total including saturated, monounsaturated, etc. The total fat could be all saturated or all unsaturated, so they're trying to say that you should go for the unsaturated fats and let that be the majority of your total fat percentage.

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  • mariana's Avatar
    Posted by mariana Wed Dec 17, 2008 8:34am PST

    total fat, it's just the total fat intake. I think what they're saying is that people that have a higher fat intake have less wrinkles, but unsaturated and monounsaturated fats being the higher percentage of your total fat intake. They don't want someone just going out and eating cheeseburgers, because they will have a higher total fat intake than most that's for sure. People with less wrinkles have a higher total fat intake that consists mostly of the "good" fat like unsaturated and monounsaturated. Just make sure you're reading the labels. I hope that was of some help.

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  • latina's Avatar
    Posted by latina Sun Dec 21, 2008 2:04pm PST

    MERRY CHRISTMAS TO EVERYONE

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  • MOMMY's Avatar
    Posted by MOMMY Tue Dec 30, 2008 12:52pm PST

    i think total fat is real fat not this I cant believe its not butter or what I like to call "fake" fats I think everyone needs a little real butter and real crisco in their bodies, of course this is in limited amounts, I personally feel that the other stuff has to many chemicals in it.

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    Posted by Tue Jan 13, 2009 5:07pm PST

    how true, you skin needs vitamins and nutrients just like the rest of the body. Read my article on Necessary Vitamins in Skin Care at http://www.articlesurplus.com/Art/494/179/Necessary-Vitamins-in-Skin-Care-Products.html

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