Crumpled faces

A couple of weeks ago I watched a very interesting TV programme but found that I was at times distracted by the presenter's face. Such a crumpled face! This was an older man, but by no means an old man. I felt sorry for the owner of the face, as I always do feel sorry for people with crumpled, 'quilted' faces. I think how difficult it must be to wash the face, to clean each wrinkle and furrow, each soft, wobbling line. I wondered why the fellow's face was so crumpled: it could not simply be that he had been out in the sun too much most of his life.

A few days later, by strange coincidence, I came across a possible explanation. Strange, because in all my life I had never heard about it before. The likely answer seems to be GLYCATION. - Go on! - Look it up using your favourite search engine! - It seems that glycation can occur when protein and sugar combine in the body. The Advanced Glycation End products (AGEs) that result are undesirable signs of accelerated ageing, which can include wrinkles, cataracts, peripheral nerve damage and many more. So if your poor face has started to look crumpled, or you'd rather like to prevent it ever starting to look crumpled, perhaps you'd like to cut down on the sugar and sugary stuff you eat. Stay as sweet (and young and beautiful) as you are by avoiding the sweet stuff! And reduce your risk of type 2 diabetes...

RoC Complete Lift promised to give middle-aged women younger-looking skin. But the ASA says the claim is misleading.

Anti-wrinkle cream advert banned for misleading public
Article in the Telegraph

Extract:

"RoC Complete Lift promised to give middle-aged women younger-looking skin. The claim was backed up by a two-month clinical study.

But an independent expert found the study by Johnson and Johnson was flawed because it lacked objective measures, records and corroborating photography.

"We concluded the advert was misleading, " said the ASA, which banned the avert and warned the pharmaceutical giant to consult the Committee of Advertising Practice before making any more commercials.

The skin cream, which costs £17.99 for a 50ml tub, claimed to have a patented ingredient which was "clinically proven" to work in eight weeks. But members of the public complained at the small print which stated the product did not give a "physical lift.""

You can reduce your risk of wrinkles by avoiding salt and salty food and avoiding DIETING! - Insufficient food causes skin-thinning, and thin skin is more likely to wrinkle than firm skin. - And there is no need to diet to lose weight. - You can easily, safely and swiftly lose excess weight by cutting down on salt and salty food.

Lose weight, reduce your risk of most cancers, high blood pressure, type 2 diabetes, stroke, heart disease, heart attack, vascular dementia, osteopenia, osteoporosis, hypercholesterolaemia, depression, liver and kidney problems, and improve your health in many other ways without drugs or expense by eating less salt! - Try it! - You will feel so much better!

Read my Mensa article on Obesity and the Salt Connection

And see Sodium in foods and

Associated health conditions

See advice for pregnant mothers

and FAT RETENTION