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Reapply sun-care products every
hour or two. Wear a sun-block lip
balm. Wear a hat. Body parts that
protrude are especially vulnera-
ble — ears, nose, lower lips, shoul-
ders — because winter sports
involve standing rather than re-
clining.

Dr. Jon Blum, Dermatolo-
gist
Question: Now that the
weather is turning cold, my skin
is starting to dry out and get itchy.
What can I do?
Answer: Michigan winters
tend to dry out our skin. This
problem becomes more severe as
we get older because our skin pro-
duces fewer and fewer oils.

The first step in treating win-
ter dry skin is to decrease wash-
ing. You can cut your showers or
baths down to no more than five
minutes, no more than every oth-
er day. Use Dove or a similar mild
soap.
The second step is to moistur-
ize your skin regularly. The most
important time to apply moistur-
izer is immediately after bathing.
Eucerin Plus, Moisturel and Pen
Kera are all good moisturizers
that you can buy in your drugstore
without a prescription.
If these measures do not clear
up your dryness and itching, then
your dermatologist can investi-
gate other causes and prescribe
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H

ere's yet another thought
on the aging process Eat-
ing plenty of produce will
slow it down.
Nutrition expert and author
Jean Carper claims that eating
plenty of fruits and vegetables,
drinking black and green tea, eat-
ing garlic and fish, avoiding satu-
rated fat and taking vitamin and
mineral supplements all help your
skin look better.
Not long ago, a breakthrough
on the aging of skin centered on
antioxidants. Free radicals, which
form when the skin is exposed to
smoke, pollution and the searing
rays of the sun, were deemed re-
sponsible for the skin's aging.
Cosmetic companies respond-
ed by adding free-radical fighters
such as vitamins A, C and E, as
well as beta-carotene, melanin
and green tea extract to products.
Those come on the heels of last
year's great skin boosters —
Retin-A or alpha hydroxy acid
products — which were supposed
to undo skin damage by speeding
up the turnover of surface cells.
The new antioxidant creams
promise to promote younger-look-
ing skin by preventing damage in
the first place.
So, does what you eat really af-
fect your skin?
Our mothers told us to stay
away from chocolate to avoid pim-
ples and acne. But that's a myth.
Chocolate and other high-fat foods
— cheese, ice cream, nuts, fries —
do not make your complexion
worse. The fat that makes pim-
ples is different from the fat eat-
en in foods.
A pimple forms when a rise in
the body's hormone levels causes
the oil glands within the skin to
make an oily substance called se-
bum, according to a Tufts Uni-
versity Diet & Nutrition Letter.
The sebum then mixes with dead

cells in a follicle that leads from
the glands to the skin's surface
and plugs the pores on the face,
upper back or chest. That creates
blackheads, whiteheads — and if
the follicle finally bursts as a re-
sult of bacteria that feed off the
oil/cell mixture — pimples.
A high-fat diet has nothing to
do with the process. But the
myths do persist.
In the 1940s and '50s, dietary
modifications routinely were sug-
gested by dermatologists for con-
trol of acne. Then around 1968,
thinking changed. Studies found
that even force-feeding chocolate
didn't increase the severity of
acne.
There may be a connection be-
tween eating a low-fat diet and
skin cancer. A recent study found
that eating less fat than Ameri-
cans typically do considerably re-
duces the risk of developing
precancerous spots on the skin.
Researchers monitored the skin
health of 72 men and women, all
of whom had suffered at least one
bout of skin cancer. Half of them
cut their fat intake to 20 percent
of calories; the other half contin-
ued to follow their usual (high-fat)
diet. At the end of two years, the
higher-fat eaters developed an av-
erage of 10 new spots or lesions,
each. Those who had adopted the
lower-fat regimen, however, av-
eraged only about three new pre-
cancerous lesions each.
Those lesions have a 25 percent
chance of developing into a type
of skin cancer (squamous cell car-
cinoma) if they're not removed.
Researchers aren't sure why
cutting down on fat in the diet
would inhibit the development of
precancerous growths. One theo-
ry is that lower levels of dietary
fat may lead to lower levels of
prostaglandins, substances that
regulate immune function.

