Researchers from the University of Bristol and St. Andrews in the UK found that the skin color of a person not only defines how to draw them, but also how their health status. Of skin color, we can see how healthy food choices and activities performed.
Research published in Springer’s International Journal of Primatology this, using a special computer device to observe the 54 Caucasian men, men and women. Skin color of the respondents and then manipulated to look healthy by improving the hue of red, yellow, and brightness of skin.
“If the previous people talking about skin texture, proved the most decisive characteristic is skin color,” says Dr. Ian Stephen, who heads the University of Bristol research. “Initially we were interested in from the research we do and shows people the maximum concentration of oxygen in the blood and the skin will result in the perception of health.”
This is what Stephen and his team then made the more curious, where on the skin pigment that affects it.
Principle, the skin of blood and oxygen teraliri showed the heart and lungs working optimally. Because people who smoke, have diabetes, and suffered a heart condition, has very little blood flow in the skin. This then makes the skin glow dimmed.
While red and yellow hues, referring to the amount we eat carotenoid pigments from fruit and vegetables. These pigments are rich in antioxidants that the body is used as a source of strength to resist various diseases and free radicals. It is also common in birds and fish meal rich in carotenoids. The researchers believe the same thing also happened on the biological mechanisms of the human body.
“If during this time many people sunbathing to make her skin is brown, do we really need to do is eat healthy foods,” says Stephen. Even Stephen believes, eating healthy foods will provide more leverage effect.
Because it turns out, melanin, the pigment that makes our skin has tanned skin when exposed to sunlight will hit it. But most of us just use whitening cosmetics to make skin look brighter. “Whereas with healthy food, skin brightness more awake,” says Prof. David Perrett, head of the laboratory of the University of St. Andrews.