Those who eat fruit and vegetables such as carrots and plums are considered more attractive, say scientists.
Their research has shown that men and women whose skin has a yellow glow are thought to be particularly attractive and healthy – and yellow pigments called carotenoids, found in certain fruit and vegetables play a key role in giving the skin that hue.
Study’s co-author Ian Stephen said that just two months of increased consumption could produce visible results.
It could lead to new strategies for encouraging the young to eat more fruit and vegetables, he said.
“Telling people they might have a heart attack in 40 years’ time if they don’t eat more healthily is one thing,” the Daily Mail quoted him as telling The Grocer magazine.
“What we can do is say, “This is what you could look in a couple of months if you increased your fruit and veg intake”,’ he added.
As part of the study by St Andrews and Bristol universities, 40 volunteers rated 51 Scottish Caucasian faces for healthiness and attractiveness.
Splitting pills in half is dangerous
Splitting tablets into two or more parts is potentially dangerous and could lead to people taking the wrong dose, warns researchers.
There could be serious consequences, especially with pills that have a narrow margin between a therapeutic and a toxic dose, the Daily Express reported citing the Journal of Advanced Nursing.
Splitting means tablet parts are often unequal in size. Researchers found that 31 percent of split tablets deviated from the recommended dose by at least 15 percent and sometimes by more than 25 percent.
The study involved drugs prescribed for Parkinson’s disease, congestive heart failure, thrombosis and arthritis, among others.
The experts were also concerned about nursing homes where splitting was a “daily practice”.
They recommended in the study that firms should produce a range of options, including smaller or bigger dose tablets.
