How to look great: eat plums and carrots
Researchers at St Andrews and Bristol universities studied the relationship between skin colour and attractiveness, and found people with a yellow skin hue were perceived as particularly healthy and attractive.
They also established for the first time that yellow pigments, or carotenoids, from certain fruit and vegetables played a key role in producing yellowness in skin.
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Hide AdScientist Ian Stephen said: "Telling people they might have a heart attack in 40 years if they don't eat more healthily is one thing. What we can say is, 'This is what you could look like in a couple of months if you increase your fruit and veg intake'."