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In less than a century, the stretch marks they have gone from absolute rarity to an almost physiological state of the developmental period, capable of affecting universally young girls and guys. The age in which it is easiest to form, in fact, is in the adolescent years, when the body grows and changes quickly and, subsequently, in young adults in the event of a sudden change in weight and pregnancy.
In adolescent girls and women, the anatomical areas most commonly involved are the thighs, buttocks, and breasts. A skin condition that can have a psychological impact and negative and lasting emotional, experts say.
The causes
There stretch mark it is the consequence of a skin alteration in which many factors are combined among which, surely, there is a glucose and hormonal disorder. As the American scholar Cushing taught, hormonal alterations attack the collagen present in the skin of certain areas of the body, making it unstable and in many cases breaking it down. If then such hormonal disorders join times when the body is being extended or elongation, such as in the period of development for boys and girls, perhaps also combined with weight gain, as during the pregnancy and lactation, the risk of the onset of striae is very high.
The link with food
From a strictly point of view scientific, therefore, it is not correct to say that there is a correlation between nutrition and the onset of stretch marks. “This is not a consequence of the fact that there are no strong correlations, it is simply due to the fact that no one has ever developed a study in this sense ”, he points out Maurizio Busoni, researcher, tutor of university studies in the field of aesthetic medicine, lecturer in university masters of i and ii level of aesthetic medicine in Italy and Spain.
“From a point of view ‘epidemiological’ however, there are strong parallels between three aspects: the so-called ‘junk food’, packaged food and stretch marks ”, continues the expert. “If we look at Western countries, we notice that overweight, cellulite and stretch marks have grown in parallel with the spread of ‘junk food’ and preserved food. For example, in Europe in the first half of the twentieth century the stretch mark was still a rarity; if we look at the photographic archives of Fratelli Alinari we will be able to find black and white photos and daguerreotypes of hundreds of female nudes where not even a streak appears ”.
“Stretch marks are starting to show up after the economic boom of the 1960s with the gradual change in nutrition, which until then had been essentially zero-kilometer. With the affirmation also in Europe of food industries we started to supply semi-finished and ready-made foods, however with added preservatives, additives and dyes, which over time have been progressively limited by scientific research, which has shown in some cases their harmfulness “.
“The big leap – says Busoni – stretch marks do it towards the 80s, when they begin to appear almost systematically with the pregnancy (about 80%), i.e. in the same period in which the expense of Italians, no longer in neighborhood shops but in supermarkets, where packaged food is preferred. Today we are besieged by fast food, Hamburger and fizzy and sugary drinks, and now the striae affect everyone, boys and girls, already from puberty, representing the most common skin disease in the world“.
Yes: the most widespread in the world. “Why in Asia – he continues – what happened in Europe in 60 years happened in less than 30. At the end of the 20th century, Asians ate their food from local and extensive productions and no one had stretch marks. Today the industrialized areas of Asia have the same incidence of stretch marks as Westerners and precisely in these areas there has been ‘westernized ‘ even food, with Korean, Chinese and Japanese companies that have invaded the packaged food market and are stealing space from zero-kilometer food, in parallel with the same phenomenon linked to the growth of fast-food ”.
If it is true, then, that there is no scientific proof that the power supply can cause stretch marks, however there are aspects that indicate the onset of the skin disease with the economic boom and changes in the daily diet.
The treatments
The good news is that today – as explained in the book “Stretch marks – The state of the art” (OM Edizoni), a volume created with the aim of sharing serious information supported by scientific publications with the general public and with all the people who are probably affected by these alterations and suffer from them – it is possible to treat them successfully in 80-90% of cases.
The text, created by prof. Domenico Amuso and written in collaboration with doctors, teachers and researchers who in recent years have specialized in the study and treatment of stretch marks, often contributing to prestigious publications, in fact, also focuses on therapeutic proposals: in particular, there is one procedure completely Made in Italy able to restructure the streak, gradually filling it, with results permanent and without side effects.
A new horizon for those who want to say goodbye to striae.
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