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The health of your skin mirrors the health of your body. With a healthy diet and proper lifestyle, you can delay ageing, say experts. As a person ages, the skin goes through reduced activity of sebaceous glands which results in dry skin . Also, thinning of epidermis and dermis causes sagging and wrinkling and slower repair of skin tissue, and age also leads to reduced blood supply to the skin, causing slow repair and metabolic activity. Bindiya A. Gupta, National Training Manager, Organic Harvest, shares how one can slow down the skin's the ageing process: * Dietary changes: A healthy diet and lifestyle will go a long way in promoting collagen production. Your best bet to combat the natural decline that happens with age. A smart way for vegetarians and vegans to support collagen production is to eat fruits and vegetables plentiful in collagen boosting nutrients. Include lots of a fresh fruits, vegetables and nuts and seeds to keep your antioxidant levels and ...

Extremely obese people need a higher dose of radiation during X-ray examinations than people of normal weight, which increases their risk of cancer, a recent study suggests. The study appeared in the 'Journal of Radiological Protection'. The University of Exeter and Musgrove Park Hospital, Taunton, led the study of more than 600 patients who had undergone surgery for weight loss. The researchers found 630 patients with an available history of radiation dose in X-rays carried out between 2007 and 2015. The patients in the study had a body mass index of up to 50, indicating they were severely obese and nearly twice the weight they should be for their height. They had all undergone procedures such as the fitting of gastric bands, gastric sleeves or gastric bypasses. The team found that obese patients received much higher doses of radiation during X-ray than normal weight people, which is necessary due to the increased amount of tissue to be imaged. Read More ...