Ahhh, so this is what Boehner is after...

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Women Prefer Men With Yellow, Red Faces

Women in a recent experiment preferred men with yellower and redder skin tones, both of which can signal good health, a crucial factor in choosing a mate, scientists say.

For instance, people of any race who eat a diet rich in fruits and vegetables tend to have yellower hues, and people who are physically fit have more oxygenated—and thus, redder—blood and skin.

...

Penton-Voak and colleagues took 20 photos of Caucasian men in northern England with an average age of 27 and made mathematical measures of their facial colors and masculinity.

Twenty-one Caucasian women with an average age of 19 were then asked to judge the attractiveness of each man's picture. The women rated the men with yellow and red skin tones as most desirable.

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http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2010/11/101103-attractive-women-men-faces-skin-color-evolution-diet-health/

[BrklynLiberal]

1. I believe he went a bit too far with this info.

I think it was Letterman who said Boehner turns this color every fall..and then goes pale again by the Spring. LOL

[progressoid]

2. Ha! That's a good one.

That reminds me, I have to go rake up leaves. :)

[BrklynLiberal]

5. Made me laugh out loud.

[enlightenment]

3. Problem is he combined the yellow and the red

and got persimmon.

Not a desirable skin tone, so much.

[Odin2005]

4. Redder skin tones? Good news for me!

I have a very ruddy complexion :D

[Beerball1]

6. sorry,

yellow skin just means you drank too much and your liver blew up.

[Warpy]

7. That's what Boehner's color has meant every time I've seen it

but the whites of his eyes haven't yellowed yet, so I'm betting it's Tan in a Can.

[progressoid]

9. Oops.

Never mind. Brain fart.

[HockeyMom]

8. My Dad's was red from working the docks

Hot sun in the summers and cold winds in the winters. I don't know what his complexion would have been if he worked inside sitting in an office year round.