Acne Diet Link Exposed: Is There an Acne Cure Diet that Works?
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.
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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
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