Acne Diet Link Exposed: Is There an Acne Cure Diet that Works?
Copyright © 2006 Mike Walden
Acne diet and the money factor: You can't sell a healthy diet
Ask any medical doctor if there is a connection
between diet and acne and almost all of them will claim there is none.
Quoting from the Journal of the American Medical Association: "Diet
plays no role in acne treatment in most patients...even large amounts
of certain foods have not clinically exacerbated acne".
With years of medical education and clinical experience behind these
claims, how can we the simple folks who suffer from acne challenge
these statements and think otherwise? The answer is: doubt. Doubt,
if its stays in the borders of reason, can open many doors otherwise
will stay forever shut. Believe it or not, doubt can change reality.
Doubt can cure your acne and doubt can even save your life.
Fact is, countless of acne sufferers have reported that their acne
seemed to get worse when they consumed certain foods and saw dramatic
positive change over their acne condition when they eliminated the
same foods from their diet and when certain foods with specific nutritional
value were incorporated into their diet.
So why do dermatologists so stubbornly insist that diet does not cause
acne? The answer: you can't make a profit promoting a healthy diet.
At least not as much money as you could make by selling drugs and
over the counters. There is a huge pressure upon doctors coming from
the drug and pharmaceutical companies to prescribe expensive medications
and lotions that create dependency. The truth is, that your doctor
is in a way, a hostage by the trillion dollar drug companies. Did
you know that the drug companies, who have no interest in producing
something that they cannot control financially, sponsor most medical
schools?
The right diet, although not a solution by itself, can, in many cases,
dramatically reduce inflammation and even completely clear one's acne
(if you're one of the lucky ones who's acne is triggered by allergic
response to food). Promoting a clear skin diet simply means less profits
for the drug and pharmaceutical companies.
The truth is that conventional medications will never cure your acne,
simply because they are pre-designed NOT to fix the internal cause
of acne. They are pre-designed to deal with the external symptoms
of a disease as they create more and more dependency and more dependency
means making more money all at our expense and ignorance.
The Theory That Diet Doesn't Cause Acne Is A Myth
The dogmatic theory that diet does not cause
acne and that acne is merely an incurable genetic disorder was based
upon two dated researches published in 1969 and 1971 that were aimed
at studying the connection between diet and acne.
These studies were the foundation of the 'acne symptoms treatment
strategy', meaning, because acne is a genetic disease that cannot
be prevented, the only way to deal with acne would be to tackle its
symptoms (bacteria, inflammation, puss, redness, greasiness), by applying
creams, antibiotics, taking prescription drugs and over the counters.
Surprisingly enough, years after the above studies were published,
clinical trials and in depth researches experimenting the acne diet
link have found that the studies from 1969 and 1971 had came to the
wrong conclusions and were in fact seriously flawed.
Recent studies have clearly found a significant connection between
diet and acne. It appears that the wrong diet is now thought to be
one of the leading acne contributing factors that can negatively affect
hormonal regulation and the natural process of toxic elimination,
which can seriously aggravate one's existing acne.
Diet Shapes Who You Are (Including Your Acne)
In the same way that crashing waves shape beach
cliffs and just like the wind shapes the canyon walls, slowly and
methodically over time, so does eating shapes and effects our physic,
our internal system, our physical and mental being, from the organ
down to the cellular level.
The idea that an object foreign to our body that is inserted by the
food that we eat, has no effect on us, or has no impact on chronic
conditions such as acne is absurd. Diet is the primary thing that
affects and shapes who we are.
Diet has cumulative effect on our bodies, and that includes our skin
condition and acne, which is a manifestation of a chronic internal
problem slowly shaped and built by the wrong daily dietary choices
over the years.
Acne Diet and The Kitavan Islanders
While in the U.S, more than 80% of teenagers
between 16 and 18 have acne and more than 17 million Americans suffer
from some form of acne, there is an interesting evidence that native
people that live and eat in traditional ways, have significantly lower
to no occurrences of acne.
In 2002, Dr. Cordain and his colleagues published a landmark study
that examined 300 people living in the Kitavan Islands off the coast
of Papua New Guinea that showed that none of the islanders had even
one blemish on his or her face. Similar to the Kitavans, no case of
acne had been observed when the same experiment had been conducted
upon the South American Indians called the Ache, living in a remote
jungle in eastern Paraguay.
The natives of Kitavan and the South American Indians had no access
to the latest over the counters, topical creams or conventional acne
medications and they had no dermatologist to consult with. The only
vast difference between them and American or European citizens is
their diet.
Acne Diet and Sugar: The Sweet Poison
Aside from the fact that sugar is a 100% pure
chemical with zero nutritional value, recent studies have clearly
shown a connection between the consumption of sugar and the aggravation
of acne.
When you consume any form of refined carbohydrates (white sugar, white
flour, white rice) here's what happens: right after you insert that
'sweet poison' into your body, it rapidly spikes up your blood sugar
levels. Your body needs to bring those levels down so it secrets a
surge of insulin, other male hormones and an insulin-like growth factor
called IGF-1.
The excretion of these hormones overwhelms
your liver and your internal system in general. The excess of male
hormones encourages the skin to excrete large amounts of sebum oil:
The greasy substance that encourages the p.acne bacteria to grow,
resulting in the aggravation of your acne.
Acne Diet and Dairy Products: Got Milk? Got Acne
If you thought sugar can aggravate your acne,
here's another major nutritional player in the formation of acne:
behold the miracles of milk. Milk (all dairy products included) is
the most harmful, mucus forming, allergenic and acne aggravating food
you can find. Surprised? I thought so.
After years of constant brainwashing by the
media, who can blame us for thinking milk is good for strong bones
and healthy teeth? The truth is: every sip of milk contains 59 different
raging hormones, (which trigger the hyper-production of sebum oil
resulting in more acne), saturated animal fat, steroid hormones, dead
white blood cells, and cow pus in abundance!
Did you know that the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) allows 750
million pus cells in every liter of milk (about two pounds) produced
in America? Think about it, the next time you pop a pimple.
Scientific studies already point the finger at milk as one of the
worst acne aggravating foods: "As pointed out by Dr. Jerome Fisher,
'About 80 percent of cows that are giving milk are pregnant and are
throwing off hormones continuously.' Progesterone breaks down into
androgens, which have been implicated as a factor in the development
of acne...Dr. Fisher observed that his teenage acne patients improved
as soon as the milk drinking stopped."
If there's one element you should remove from your diet in the quest
for clear skin make it this one. Not only will you see an immediate
improvement over your acne, you'll feel a huge weight has been lifted
from your body. If you worry about calcium intake, don't! Milk being
acidic forming food creates a leeching effect where calcium is taken
from your bones to balance the acidity. Milk actually deprives your
body from its calcium resources. Green leafy vegetables, nuts and
seeds are not only excellent sources of calcium they also have the
powers to help you fight your acne symptoms.
Diet Is Only ONE of The Factors That Cause Acne
Dairy products and sugar are not the only acne
aggravating foods. The two above cannot sum up the list of western
made acne triggering foods. There are several other foods you should
clearly stay away from if you ever wish to clear your acne. The good
new is that there are tons of other foods such as essential fatty
acids that are not only excellent for your skin, they can actually
help you clear your acne, by re-balancing your body and promoting
to an acne-free environment.
The right nutrition plays an important part in the complex process
of acne formation. When doctors claim there is no link between diet
and acne because certain individuals can eat specific foods and get
acne while others eat the same foods and don't, these doctors have
failed to realize that there are several factors involved in the formation
and aggravation of acne and diet is only ONE of them.
The Final Verdict On The Acne Diet Connection: How To Finally
Overcome Your Acne Challenge
Acne is a complex condition that is triggered
by several underlying factors. The only way to neutralize your acne
condition is to tackle all these acne-contributing factors-holistically.
Since the wrong diet is only one of these acne-triggering factors,
in most cases no special diet can cure acne.
There is a however, a tight connection between diet and acne formation.
Dietary factors can trigger and aggravate your existing acne. Avoiding
the wrong foods such as milk, sugar and hydrogenated oils, and eating
cleansing and hormonal balancing foods such as green leafy vegetables
and essential fatty acids, can help your skin heal itself from the
inside out and dramatically reduce your acne symptoms.
There are also several important dietary principals that you must
understand and follow if you ever want to cure your acne for good.
Taking responsibility over your body and adhering to these dietary
principals along with taking the necessary steps to tackle all acne
contributing factors, holistically, will not only cure your acne permanently
and give you the flawless acne free skin you deserve, following these
principals will also significantly improve your overall health, mental
well-being, look and feel.
About The Author: Mike Walden is a certified
nutritionist, independent medical researcher, natural health consultant
and author of the #1 best-selling e-book, "Acne
No More- Open The Door To An Acne Free Life." Mike has
written dozens of holistic health articles and has been featured in
ezines and print magazines, as well as on hundreds of websites worldwide.
For information on Mike's Holistic
Clear Skin program, visit: http://www.acnenomore.com
or Holistic
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