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Do wrinkle products work? Advertisements promise younger, more beautiful skin. Here's what we know and don't know about wrinkle reducers.

Publication: Saturday Evening Post
Publication Date: 01-MAR-08 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access

Article Excerpt
Wrinkles! They're every mature woman's nightmare.

Many women are scouring drugstore shelves and taking notes on TV beauty ads, searching for a facelift in a bottle. TV commercials are flashing models pushing formulas that promise to make your skin look youthful and tight as the skin on a drum--but much lovelier.

The American Society for Nutrition recently conducted a study aimed at discovering the connections between "nutrient intakes and skin-aging appearance."

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The society used data from the first National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey. Researchers looked into connections between "nutrient intakes" and skin aging in 4,025 women ages 40 to 74. Dermatologists conducted clinical examinations of the women's skin.

Skin-aging appearance was defined in the study as "having a wrinkled appearance, senile dryness, and skin atrophy (thinning)."

Skin aging was found significantly in older women. As if we didn't know it. "Women with a wrinkled appearance, dryness, and thinning skin were more likely to be white, have lower family income, be postmenopausal,...

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