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Can Diets & Supplements Make Your Skin Look Sexier & Younger? Review Says What Works & What Doesn't Work

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People pay thousand of dollars for topicals to make their skin look healthier and younger. Is it possible that the same or even more can be achieved by diet and significantly cheaper supplements? Well, as a SuppVersity  reader you can hardly be surprised to hear that the way you eat and supplement affects the way you look. What may surprise you is the fact that there are actually only few studies that investigated these effects systematically. Luckily, the latest review of the few studies that exists comes right off the press and has just been published in the scientific journal Nutrition Research  (Pezdric. 2015). In their review of all currently available studies that included participants aged at least 18 years, that observed or altered dietary intake from actual food or dietary supplement use, and assessed appearance related outcomes were, researchers from the  University of Newcastle and the  University of St Andrews  compiled data from a total o...

Johnson & Johnson Financed Study Finds Their Cellulite Creme to be Effective: Reductions in Orange Peel and Synergistic Effects of Tetrahydroxypropyl Ethylenediamine, Caffeine, Carnitine, Forskolin and Retinol based Commercial Product on Orange Peel

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Image 1: ROC anti-cellulite intensive cream ; supposedly, the product used in this study I've said this before, but in a different context: I love companies who do even try to back their products by scientific studies and thus I cannot really decry Johnson & Johnson for funding a study on one of their products, the name of which - and this is interesting - is yet not even mentioned in the respective publication ( Roure. 2011 ) in the May issue of the International Journal of Cosmetic Science . While parts of the study were done ex vivo and in the petri dish, the interesting part, i.e. the part, I want to focus on, was an in vivo study with female 78 subjects (mean ages: placebo, 38y / product, 41y) who matched the following criteria: Participants in the study were required to have a body mass index (BMI = weight height −2 ) between 20.0 and 26.0 kg m −2 and to present a modest amount of orange ...
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