• Don’t be scared off by nutrition bullies. Everything that’s not wonderful for you will not kill you either and moderation is the key word. People who are neurotic about what they must not eat under pain of death, cancer or pimples are generally tense people, and you know what tenseness does to the skin’s oil production. Take the cholesterol-obsessed. Cholesterol will surely be the end of you, they smugly say. But science, as we note several times, changes its mind regularly and now the scientists are saying that high blood …

Skin care is related to total health and total health is very much dependent on what goes in your mouth. It’s ‘a definite interconnected cycle, and if you want to have good skin you cannot ignore diet. For instance, poor diet often brings about gastrointestinal problems which in turn create loose, hanging and wrinkled skin; broken blood vessels; rashes; itchy, scaly, puffy skin. Infections, which become more easily contracted when nutritional strength is undermined, can create inflamed hair follicles on the skin, boils, pimples, cracked lips — it’s too depressing …