Skin colour..?

[Lees Dragon]

I dunno if this is actually realted to health or nutrition but evrytime someone remarks about this they say its caused by malnutrition and not eating right.

I was lookin at myself in the mirror yesterday, and i noticed that my face was kind of a yellowish colour. Not exactly yellow, kind of a tan thats sorta got a yellow touch to it.

I was wondering: whats the cause of this colour.
Is it genes? Is it because of the kind of environment ive been living in? Is it malnutrition? Is it lack of something? Is it excess of something?

I'd like to know if anyone knows what i'm talkin about. Cause i'm absolutely fed up and tired with people sayin its cause i aint eatin right. I eat ten times better than most people, and i follow nutrition/bodybuilding regulations.

Thanks for hearin me out.

[Dingo]

Although people don't think so, that might be your skin color. The important thing is you eat right, so no need to worry about the malnutrition possibility. Are you getting your daily doses of vitamins like E and D and so? And if you are worried you can always see a dermatologist and or doctor.

[Sakanem]

He lives in a sunny region, so vitamin D will hardly be a problem :good:

[shengoikee]

just tell your friends to stop being racist

[Birch]

yer sometimes it changes different colours because of the colour pigmintations in food and your skin.
so eating excess of something with a large amount of colouring in it can alter your skin

its not neccessarilly unhealthy

[Karlnold]

Hepatitis C

[Rahf]

To follow up on Karlnolds claim here:

Unless you have hepatitis or some other serious disorder I am in doubt if it would be anything other than skin pigmentation.

*Edit* Having hepatitis is something I doubt. Especially in the UAE.

[Skilzat85X]

I remember on the Magic School Bus Arnold or someone turned orange because they ate nothing but this one food that was colored orange for several weeks.

Ahaha.

[shengoikee]

lollll

you can do that with loads of foods

i saw this programme where this dude ate foods which turned his piss various colours like bright blue etc. i wonder if you'd eventually become blue.

[Munks]

Jaundice - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaundice ...i had it when i was born and have a yellow tint.

[Rahf]

My mom ate carrots like crazy when her womb had some nervous breakdown or something. Her skin turned chinese yellow and beyond. She eventually had to remove her womb but made a full recovery!

[Ashtar]

It might be a disease or it might be a lot of carotene in your diet.

[shengoikee]

It might be a disease or it might be a lot of carotene in your diet.

this reminded me of those jokes you get in christmas crackers.

[Ashtar]

You mean when you pull on those strings and it pops and you get the paper crown?

[Rahf]

Nah he means that you are the disease.

[Birch]

Jaundice - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaundice ...i had it when i was born and have a yellow tint.

that explains the colour of you in your avatar then?

[Lees Dragon]

Thank you people! Thank you....

You know..I knew that there was nothing wrong with me or my nutrition.

I just asked this question so that I could shut out all those stupid claims that i dont eat right. Now those sceptic people have nothing on me.
Besides, I dont stick to one kind of food. I eat a huge variety and dont specify on one thing. You reminded me about my physics teacher two years ago. He said that it was obvious that I was crazy over bananas because i was yellowish. He rather enjoyed throwing banana jokes at me from then on.

Ps...Im sure i dont have that disease that Munks suggested. I dont look so scary as that picture in wikipedia. Nope. Mines is just a normal tan that has a yellowish tint if you look at it long enough.

[Ashtar]

I still say it means plenty of beta carotene. Although... I read apparently it only converts to vitamin A in your intestines or something? Could that mean storing it up in the skin doesn't work?

[chicanerous]

You're probably just Asian and you don't know it.

[Lees Dragon]

Yeah. Last time i checked I was Asian.

Dude, be serious. Asia is rather big, and not all Asians are alike.

[Rahf]

Yeah. Last time i checked I was Asian.

Dude, be serious. Asia is rather big, and not all Asians are alike.

No, but generally speaking, asians do have yellowish skin. At least when compared to caucasians.

[Skilzat85X]

I have the yellowish hue of brown but I'm black+white. I think anyways haha.

[Steve]

I'm just the typical white cunt, with more brown hues than red/pink

[Lees Dragon]

Nice new pic rahf.
Well beats the old one!

[Rahf]

Nice new pic rahf.
Well beats the old one!

It's still not me. Just angry Roy.

[tuareg]

I have yellowish kind of skin, even though im white.



:eh:

[Cully]

My mom ate carrots like crazy when her womb had some nervous breakdown or something. Her skin turned chinese yellow and beyond. She eventually had to remove her womb but made a full recovery!

It might be a disease or it might be a lot of carotene in your diet.

I know some people that overdosed on those vitamin C tablets every day... Not really overdosed, but took a lot, for a long time.. They seem to think that "hey, it's vitamins, it's good for you"... but these things are like 10x the daily recommended amount and after 1 month of eating them , your skin goes orange... They probably have beta-carotene in them aswell...

Could be something like that, or could just be your race 'cos you said you are asian.... Could it be that you go slightly that colour when you tan? I know it's different, but I live with 3 chinese people and they go more strong yellowish colour when they get a tan.

I'm as white as can be, but I go kinda pinky/brown when I tan... but then, being irish would do that to me... (not that we get much sun).

[Rahf]

Vitamin C tablets would logically contain vitamin C. It'd be a manufacturer's fault if they didn't add info about the beta-carotene no? I'm just guessing here since it could be completely different in other countries.

Many irish go FUBAR when tanning. And that's not to say they get an actual flattering tan.

[Ashtar]

The only thing I've heard associated with excess Vitamin C is diarreah. Not all VitC supps are VitC/Carotene complexes. VitC isn't fatsoluble so excesses are generally just washed out of you, it's the whole 'pissing vitamins' thing.

That's why they either have you take multiple tiny doses, or time-release capsules, or whatever.

[Rahf]

The only thing I've heard associated with excess Vitamin C is diarreah. Not all VitC supps are VitC/Carotene complexes. VitC isn't fatsoluble so excesses are generally just washed out of you, it's the whole 'pissing vitamins' thing.

That's why they either have you take multiple tiny doses, or time-release capsules, or whatever.

OR drink the tablets that dissolve in water, bringing a drink that resembles Fanta (if you choose the orange flavoured, which surprisingly, alot of people do).

[Cully]

These were orange things... I'm not sure the technical reason, but she went orangy from taking them... looked like a bad fake tan colour..

Many irish go FUBAR when tanning. And that's not to say they get an actual flattering tan.

The irish are famous for having the whitest of white skin... Those are the red haired people with lots of freckles... If they even see the sun, they spontaneously combust.

I'm a little different.. I'm the next level up... (blonde hair, blue eyes).... My skin isn't really white, but it's quite hard for me to tan and I burn quite easily...

This is the most popular type of irish person... and they all seem to go on holidays to hot countries and lie in the sun all day with their oils which don't protect them much. The local people in these countries usually stay indoors between 12 and 3, but the irish are famous for going out at this time, and instead of getting brown, we turn bright red followed by craploads of peeling....

n00bs.

[Ashtar]

If you drink the ones dissolved in water you still have to partition it a bit. If you chuck a bottle all at once it could still pass through you without all of it getting incorporated. Of course, that's a risk with any vitamins in food, but I'd think you'd lose more than say, eating an orange. What with the fibre and all. You can't squeeze out every drop of liquid after all, so whatever you don't will only come out once the fibre around it is dissolved. IF it is dissolved. Hmm.