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Improving Skin Carotenoid Levels in Young Students through Brief Dietary Education Using the Veggie Meter
The antioxidant and anti-inflammatory effects of carotenoid have been determined to aid in the prevention of a wide range of oxidative disorders, arteriosclerosis, obesity, and various types of cancers. In order to keep high carotenoid levels in the body, much of the vegetable and fruit (V/F) intake...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9405129/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36009289 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/antiox11081570 |
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author | Obana, Akira Asaoka, Ryo Miura, Ayako Nozue, Miho Takayanagi, Yuji Nakamura, Mieko |
author_facet | Obana, Akira Asaoka, Ryo Miura, Ayako Nozue, Miho Takayanagi, Yuji Nakamura, Mieko |
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description | The antioxidant and anti-inflammatory effects of carotenoid have been determined to aid in the prevention of a wide range of oxidative disorders, arteriosclerosis, obesity, and various types of cancers. In order to keep high carotenoid levels in the body, much of the vegetable and fruit (V/F) intake is mandatory. However, the actual intake of V/F is not enough in many countries. The aim of this study was to assess whether brief dietary education using the Veggie Meter (VM) that could measure skin carotenoid (SC) levels could induce the increase in carotenoid levels via V/F intake. Two hundred and sixty-one elementary and junior high school students (ages 7–14 years old) received brief educational session and SC evaluation by VM, and the changes in SC levels were examined after 6 months. The baseline VM scores ranged from 131 to 825, and the average significantly increased from 400.0 ± 124.7 (standard deviation) to 447.4 ± 140.4 at Month 6 (p < 0.0001). The percentage of increase at month 6 was negatively correlated with the baseline values (r = −0.36, p < 0.0001). This finding implies that subjects who became aware of their inferiority tended to make a significant effort to change their behavior. The multivariate logistic regression analysis demonstrated that subjects taking much of green and yellow vegetables, drinking vegetable/tomato juice, and eating any fruit had higher VM scores than the average value. In conclusion, the educational approach using VM was supposed to be an effective method of raising awareness of the V/F shortage and increasing V/F intake that could indue the increase in SC levels. |
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spelling | pubmed-94051292022-08-26 Improving Skin Carotenoid Levels in Young Students through Brief Dietary Education Using the Veggie Meter Obana, Akira Asaoka, Ryo Miura, Ayako Nozue, Miho Takayanagi, Yuji Nakamura, Mieko Antioxidants (Basel) Article The antioxidant and anti-inflammatory effects of carotenoid have been determined to aid in the prevention of a wide range of oxidative disorders, arteriosclerosis, obesity, and various types of cancers. In order to keep high carotenoid levels in the body, much of the vegetable and fruit (V/F) intake is mandatory. However, the actual intake of V/F is not enough in many countries. The aim of this study was to assess whether brief dietary education using the Veggie Meter (VM) that could measure skin carotenoid (SC) levels could induce the increase in carotenoid levels via V/F intake. Two hundred and sixty-one elementary and junior high school students (ages 7–14 years old) received brief educational session and SC evaluation by VM, and the changes in SC levels were examined after 6 months. The baseline VM scores ranged from 131 to 825, and the average significantly increased from 400.0 ± 124.7 (standard deviation) to 447.4 ± 140.4 at Month 6 (p < 0.0001). The percentage of increase at month 6 was negatively correlated with the baseline values (r = −0.36, p < 0.0001). This finding implies that subjects who became aware of their inferiority tended to make a significant effort to change their behavior. The multivariate logistic regression analysis demonstrated that subjects taking much of green and yellow vegetables, drinking vegetable/tomato juice, and eating any fruit had higher VM scores than the average value. In conclusion, the educational approach using VM was supposed to be an effective method of raising awareness of the V/F shortage and increasing V/F intake that could indue the increase in SC levels. MDPI 2022-08-14 /pmc/articles/PMC9405129/ /pubmed/36009289 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/antiox11081570 Text en © 2022 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article Obana, Akira Asaoka, Ryo Miura, Ayako Nozue, Miho Takayanagi, Yuji Nakamura, Mieko Improving Skin Carotenoid Levels in Young Students through Brief Dietary Education Using the Veggie Meter |
title | Improving Skin Carotenoid Levels in Young Students through Brief Dietary Education Using the Veggie Meter |
title_full | Improving Skin Carotenoid Levels in Young Students through Brief Dietary Education Using the Veggie Meter |
title_fullStr | Improving Skin Carotenoid Levels in Young Students through Brief Dietary Education Using the Veggie Meter |
title_full_unstemmed | Improving Skin Carotenoid Levels in Young Students through Brief Dietary Education Using the Veggie Meter |
title_short | Improving Skin Carotenoid Levels in Young Students through Brief Dietary Education Using the Veggie Meter |
title_sort | improving skin carotenoid levels in young students through brief dietary education using the veggie meter |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9405129/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36009289 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/antiox11081570 |
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