"Let food be thy medicine and medicine be your food" Hippocrates C400 BCOf
course we all know how important our diet in relation to the overall
health and well-being, but it has a direct effect on acne? Diet has long been a non-established cooperation with acne. I
think because so many people think they are all from acne to some
degree or other, that they are qualified to suffer position. It's really no wonder, wisdom and old wives tales remain in the conscience of society. And
it's really no surprise that a non-acne sufferer can, that it's okay,
what's to jump basically a logical solution to a seemingly superficial
issue.
What to realize that most people with a little common sense, is that acne is affected by your general health, and nutrition is one of the most important ingredients for a healthy life. Of course, there are around some super-fit, healthy vegetarians who eat no artificial ingredients and still get acne.
I am ashamed to admit that I personally lived up to my role as a teenager and rebelled against my parents and others, the same acne 'shared their "chips wisdom and did my best to make as poor a diet as I could, not only poor food in terms of nutrition, but after a childhood regimen of three meals a day at set intervals I seemed freedom is not something to eat all morning, until a plate full of cheese covered curly fries enjoy three clock in the afternoon. I loved the chance my superior knowledge and state it categorically demonstrate any connection between acne and diet, and I'm going to eat as many hamburgers as I want.
When I was about 20 I decided to start looking after my body a little better. It was a road to Damascus moment and suddenly I had quit smoking, improved my diet and started to the gym regularly. It was not many weeks before I was, as my skin improved, I still had acne, but it was definitely reduced and my skin looked healthier generally realized. Over the next few months he remained consistently improved, I was definitely not acne free, but it was by far the biggest improvement that I had ever seen. A that time I have not really thought of healthier a particular cause other than, in general, that meant less acne.
It was a few years later, after I took Accutane and become my acne was much more a case of sporadic outbreaks that I seriously began to experiment with different food groups and to try and find a connection between diet and acne. And I find that certain foods give some undoubtedly did me acne, it was not until then that I do research to see if other people had started similar conclusions. What I found, interestingly enough, was my first diagnosis years ago was not too far off the mark that instead of trigger foods a generally poor diet may be the main cause of acne.
There have been some interesting studies on both the skin quality of peoples to distant islands and how the westernization of their diet affects their health and skin performed. One such study [1] shows how a group of 1,200 people from an island in Papua New Guinea existing on a diet of fruit, vegetables and fish showed absolutely no signs of acne. Not a mark - compared to an average of more than 80% of Western youth, the signs of acne [2].
Now of course such a stark contrast makes me think that maybe there is a genetic difference, it would have been nice if the authors of this study could have picked examined a few young people from the 1200 people and asked them for a milky-way food and a glass of milk every day for a few months and then see if there is a change in their skin condition.
Unfortunately for us Western diet lovers, there are a few other studies (okay not part of the Milky Way) to do just that. A study by Otto Schaefer [3] saw the rapidly changing health of a population of Eskimos in northern Canada, where they were introduced to a Western diet and many diseases observed previously unreleased in its population, including acne. For generations survived Eskimos on a diet of mainly meat and fish until about 150 years Russian settlers led them into low glycemic index (GI) foods such as cabbage, barley and potatoes, but it was not until the Canadians brought high GI foods composed of refined sugar and flour, their health and skin condition deteriorates [4].
So if a low GI diet is the common factor in people without acne, what it is caused by a high GI diet, the acne? So basically held a cascade of hormonal effects. A high GI means a high blood sugar level, this promotes insulin production, which means more hormones such as Insulin Growth Factor IGF1 which increase the production of androgen hormones such as testosterone, which in turn increased sebum - the greasy oil that the underlying cause is acne.
The relationship between insulin production and acne can be verified by the prevalence of acne in women of PCOS (polycystic ovary syndrome), with hypoglycemic medications, insulin sensitivity can be treated less suffering. Insulin can also promote the growth of keratin in skin cells, causing hair follicles become blocked and trapping sebum causes acne [5].
So it seems that science shows us there is a connection between diet and acne does, it's just not as simple as eating the same greasy oily skin.
Personally, I would not, if the scientists say there was no connection between diet and acne. My personal experience is all that matters, and unfortunately I know only too well that a little Ben & Jerry's over-indulgence would soon regret is when I look in the bathroom mirror next week ...
