You are what you eat: within-subject increases in fruit and vegetable consumption confer beneficial skin-color changes.
Fruit and vegetable consumption and ingestion of carotenoids have been found to be associated with human skin-color (yellowness) in a recent cross-sectional study. This carotenoid-based coloration contributes beneficially to the appearance of health in humans and is held to be a sexually selected cu...
Main Authors: | Ross D Whitehead, Daniel Re, Dengke Xiao, Gozde Ozakinci, David I Perrett |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Public Library of Science (PLoS)
2012-01-01
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Series: | PLoS ONE |
Online Access: | http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3296758?pdf=render |
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