Somos lo que comemos... y porqué las verduras nos ayudan a ser mas "sexys"

Interesante artículo aparecido en PLoS One, "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 cue of condition in other species."

Conclusions

Increased fruit and vegetable consumption confers measurable and perceptibly beneficial effects on Caucasian skin appearance within six weeks. This effect could potentially be used as a motivational tool in dietary intervention.


Algunos fragmentos que me llamaron la atención:

There are important ramifications of this research for human health. Adults in the UK and US predominantly consume fewer than 400 g of fruit and vegetables per day [41], [42]. Such inadequate intake is estimated to precipitate 2.6 million premature deaths per year worldwide [43]. "

"We also present a psychophysical study which aims to estimate the level of diet change associated with perceptibly healthier or more attractive skin-coloration."