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Skin color, shows the quality of your health
March 8th, 2010 | 
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Researchers from the University of Bristol and St. Andrews in the UK found that one’s skin color is not only defines how attractive they are, but also how their health status. From this color, we can see how healthy food choices and activities undertaken.
A study published in Springer’s International Journal of Primatology this, using special computer equipment for 54 people watched the Caucasian race, male and female. Skin color of the respondents and then manipulated to look healthy by increasing red hue, yellow, and brightness of the skin.
“If before people talked about the texture of the skin, was the most decisive characteristic is skin color,” says Dr. Ian Stephen, who headed the research at the University of Bristol. “Initially we were interested in the research we do and show, the blood levels and maximal oxygen in the skin will result in the perception of health.”
This is what then makes Stephen and his team even more curious, where the skin pigment that affect it.
Principally, the skin of blood and oxygen teraliri showed the heart and lungs working optimally. For people who smoke, have diabetes, and suffered a heart condition, have blood flow very little in the skin. This is what then makes the skin color fading.
While red and yellow hues, referring to the amount of carotenoid pigment that we eat from the fruit and vegetables. These pigments are rich in antioxidants that the body is used as a source of strength to fight the disease and free radicals. The same occurs in birds and fish are rich in carotenoid food. The researchers believe the same thing also happened in the human body’s biological mechanisms.
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