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.
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: Acne No More™ Cure Your
Acne Holistically
