| Title |
You Are What You Eat: Within-Subject Increases in Fruit and Vegetable Consumption Confer Beneficial Skin-Color Changes
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|---|---|
| Published in |
PLOS ONE, March 2012
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| DOI | 10.1371/journal.pone.0032988 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Ross D. Whitehead, Daniel Re, Dengke Xiao, Gozde Ozakinci, David I. Perrett |
| Abstract |
Fruit and vegetable consumption and ingestion of carotenoids have been found to be associated with human skin-color (yellowness) in a recent cross-sectional study. This carotenoid-based coloration contributes beneficially to the appearance of health in humans and is held to be a sexually selected cue of condition in other species. |
X Demographics
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 39 | 26% |
| United Kingdom | 23 | 15% |
| Spain | 8 | 5% |
| Netherlands | 6 | 4% |
| Australia | 5 | 3% |
| Canada | 4 | 3% |
| Japan | 2 | 1% |
| Mexico | 2 | 1% |
| Germany | 1 | <1% |
| Other | 12 | 8% |
| Unknown | 49 | 32% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 104 | 69% |
| Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 21 | 14% |
| Scientists | 19 | 13% |
| Science communicators (journalists, bloggers, editors) | 6 | 4% |
| Unknown | 1 | <1% |
Mendeley readers
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United Kingdom | 6 | 4% |
| Netherlands | 1 | <1% |
| France | 1 | <1% |
| Australia | 1 | <1% |
| Japan | 1 | <1% |
| United States | 1 | <1% |
| Poland | 1 | <1% |
| Unknown | 158 | 93% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Researcher | 33 | 19% |
| Student > Bachelor | 24 | 14% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 23 | 14% |
| Student > Master | 23 | 14% |
| Professor > Associate Professor | 10 | 6% |
| Other | 35 | 21% |
| Unknown | 22 | 13% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Psychology | 42 | 25% |
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 33 | 19% |
| Medicine and Dentistry | 14 | 8% |
| Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 7 | 4% |
| Engineering | 6 | 4% |
| Other | 39 | 23% |
| Unknown | 29 | 17% |