Vitamin C and Linoleic Acid Slow Skin Wrinkling

In a recent landmark study of 4,025 women ages 40 to 74, researchers found that people who ate plenty of vitamin C-rich foods had fewer wrinkles than people whose diets contained little of the vitamin.

Diets rich in the omega-6 fatty acid linoleic acid (which can be found in acai berry) were also associated with less skin aging from dryness and thinning, while higher-fat diets and those higher in carbohydrates were associated with more wrinkling.

The findings are far from conclusive, but they do suggest that when it comes to skin aging, you truly are what you eat.

"Our findings add evidence to a predominately supplement and topical application-based hypothesis that what we eat affects our skin-aging appearance," nutritional epidemiologist Maeve C. Cosgrove and colleagues write in the October issue of The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition.

You can read the full study published in the AJCN here.