Skin wrinkling. Can food make a difference?

Population studies have found that healthy diets tend to be associated with less severe

facial aging. Presumably, this is because unhealthy foods might increase the oxidative

stress load, be pro-inflammatory,

the advanced glycation in products I talk about in my video the best diet for healthy aging,

whereas healthy foods might provide protection by having an inside-out sunscreen effect,

stimulating collagen production, and DNA repair,

which could help explain why meat and junk

predominant eating pattern was associated with more wrinkles, whereas a fruit-dominant pattern

or those eating more fruits, vegetables, and nuts may enjoy less wrinkling.

Vegetables, beans, and olive oil appear protective versus meat and dairy.

Fish was initially correlated with less skin wrinkling, but the association

disappeared upon multiple regression analysis, meaning it was likely a spurious result

due to fish consumption being associated with, for example, other healthy foods such as salad

or cooked vegetables.

Higher vitamin C intakes were associated with lower odds of a wrinkled appearance in a study

of 4,000 middle-aged American women.

In terms of specific foods, yellow and green vegetables may be particularly protective,

the Daniels scale was used to test the effect of crow's feet wrinkles around the eyes of

700 women.

Those eating less than one daily serving of greener

yellow veggies, averaged about a three on the Daniel scale, while women eating more than two

...