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5th Annual
Summer Concert Series

Phil Gram & Orchestra
Tuesday, July 2nd
Panchito & Orchestra
Tuesday, July 9th

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,

Bob Durant & Band
Tuesday, July 16th

Emily Austin Quartet
Tuesday, July 23rd

Jerry Stann & Orchestra
Tuesday, July 30th

All concerts will begin at 2:00 pm

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fries — do not make your com-
plexion worse. The fat that makes
pimples is different from the fat
eaten in foods.
A pimple forms when a rise in
the body's hormone levels caus-
es the oil glands within the skin
to make an oily substance called
sebum, according to a Tufts Uni-

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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 oth-
er half continued 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 per-

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