Eating carbs makes you unattractive, study shows

Food & Drink

By Alex Mitchell and David Landsel

Hey, pizza face!

Bad news for New Yorkers — we really are what we eat, scientists say.

New research out of another carb capital — baguette-loving France — reveals that the opposite sex finds a person’s face less attractive after they’ve eaten refined carbohydrate-filled foods.

The unappetizing findings, published in the journal “Plos One,” invited 104 heterosexual men and women to test their thesis — over breakfast.

Some participants dined on a high-carb menu, while others were offered a low-glycemic alternative.

Two hours after the meal, photos of the subjects were taken and handed out, with volunteers asked to rate each other’s curb appeal.

Those who ate the carbs — men and women — were given lower facial attractiveness scores across the board.

Those who wrote in their survey that they typically eat high-carb breakfasts and snacks also tanked in the ratings.

Researchers at the University of Montpellier say the next step is a much larger sample size, in order to better understand why foods impact how our faces look.

“Facial attractiveness, an important factor of social interactions, seems to be impacted by immediate and chronic refined carbohydrate consumption in men and women,” the authors said.