Perricone Diet

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The Perricone Diet was developed by Nicholas Perricone, a board-certified dermatologist. Perricone believes that micro-inflammation¹ is the cause of skin problems, aging and obesity.

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1. Diet relies heavily on salmon
2. Recommends nutritional supplements, sold by Perricone
3. Celebrity endorsement: Courtney Cox²

He introduced his diet principles in 2001 with publication of The Wrinkle Cure, which maintained that this diet could prevent and reduce wrinkles.³ In 2002, The Perricone Prescription added the claim that an anti-inflammatory diet could combat heart disease and cancer.⁴ The Perricone Promise focused on the diet's abilities to slow aging and improve mood.² He reissued the diet again in 2005, where The Perricone Weight Loss Diet promised weight loss without losing body tone.⁵

In 2007, he released Ageless Face, Ageless Mind which claimed that he had discovered the cause of age related memory loss — Advanced Glycation End Products (AGE)s — which can be fought by utilizing his anti-inflammatory diet. These AGEs, he maintains, are also a cause of heart disease, cancer, diabetes and wrinkles.⁶