Is Your Diet Causing Acne? By Leslie Baumann, M.D. - Posted Fri, May 15, 2009, 4:54 pm PDT

1. Posted by A Yahoo! Health User on Sat, May 16, 2009, 1:20 pm PDT

I didn't know these foods were good at treating acne. Richmond Hill Dentist http://www.bcdentalcare.ca/NewPatients/tabid/472/Default.aspx

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2. Posted by A Yahoo! Health User on Mon, May 18, 2009, 11:55 am PDT

Now that I think about it, my parents, grand parents and other family members consumed a lot of the acne-fighting foods on the list, and they were acne free. Interesting. Margaret

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3. Posted by A Yahoo! Health User on Mon, May 18, 2009, 4:15 pm PDT

i love this article

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4. Posted by A Yahoo! Health User on Wed, May 20, 2009, 3:58 am PDT

thanks for the advice.

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5. Posted by A Yahoo! Health User on Wed, May 20, 2009, 6:13 am PDT

I agree with avoiding sugar and junk, but you can't cut out dairy. I have acne issues, but I'm also a workout junkie and I need the calcium and protein in milk and yogurt. Besides, the connection between dairy and acne is dubious at best.

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6. Posted by A Yahoo! Health User on Sun, May 24, 2009, 12:13 am PDT

Increasing your protein intake by adding a Protein powder to your diet will stop acne. I had CYSTIC Acne. The kind that are LARGE and small and feels like very sore bruises. Infected with deep pus. I lowered my sugar and starch and increased protein. Clear skin! HTH someone!!!

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7. Posted by A Yahoo! Health User on Sun, May 24, 2009, 5:40 pm PDT

Dairy is high in iodine, and iodine is known to aggravate acne. Ironically, skim milk - which is probably the healthiest dairy product - is also the highest in iodine. Fatty cheeses have the lowest iodine content. Unless you have a milk allergy or are lactose intolerant though, you can probably consume moderate amounts of dairy without causing breakouts. Avoid shellfish, though. It's very high in iodine. And switch to non-iodized table salt. Virtually everybody in the West gets enough iodine from their diet - especially from processed foods and from eating out - to do without iodized salt (which was introduced decades ago to fight goiter).

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8. Posted by A Yahoo! Health User on Mon, May 25, 2009, 5:37 am PDT

I am not a dermatologist, or a physician, but I think that to tell people to eliminate dairy products is wrong because everyone is different. Everyone's body works differently, and what works for one person might not work for another. I had acne as a teen and a young adult, and my dermatologist never recommended that I stop consumming dairy products. Also, I ate a very healthy diet because my parents didn't allow my brother and I to eat a lot of junkfood, only special on occasions like holidays, and I still got acne. What cleared my acne was the use of tetracycline and Retin-A. However, like I said before, what worked for me, might not work for other people. Thanks, just wanted to put my two cents in.

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9. Posted by A Yahoo! Health User on Mon, May 25, 2009, 12:19 pm PDT

This article would be good if it contained true facts. Diet has very, very little effect on prducing acne breakouts. Although there are some true facts in this column, they have been wrongly construed in a way to back up the claims presented.

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10. Posted by A Yahoo! Health User on Mon, May 25, 2009, 2:17 pm PDT

Thank you so much for this article. I have bad acne and people have told me before that it's my diet but they could never give me a scientific reason. This just may be what cuts down my sweet tooth.

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11. Posted by A Yahoo! Health User on Fri, May 29, 2009, 8:02 am PDT

Of course your diet has an effect on your skin. You are what you eat - what else could you be? Well, environment counts too, so add in the air you breath and what you apply topically. But everyone is different so what greatly affects your skin may have no effect on someone else. I had rosacea for a couple of years and couldn't figure out what was wrong with my diet. It turns out that chemicals were leaching from the plastic containers that I was microwaving my food in. I still store food in plastic but transfer it to glass to cook. Tallow based soaps also gave me acne so I switched to an olive oil soap and stopped using any products with glycerin on my skin. I also stopped eating beef because if it isn't good for my outsides it wouldn't be good for my insides either.

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12. Posted by A Yahoo! Health User on Wed, Jul 01, 2009, 2:16 pm PDT

this was interesting

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13. Posted by A Yahoo! Health User on Sun, Jul 05, 2009, 9:42 am PDT

Oh. Thank you! I can't believe how few doctors are recognizing the diet acne connection, which is not only obvious based on what we know about hormones and blood sugar, it's been demonstrated in studies and published in journals and mainstream publications. Why are 99% of derms and doctors not reading? Today Show's Dr. Nancy Sniederman just published a book on medical myths and promoted it on the Today show. And she says diet has no effect on acne. It's hormones. Which as a doctor she should know how diet affects hormones. Because of this I can't believe a word she says and wrote to her to say so. Not that it does anygood. And blood sugar and androgens aren't the only ways diet affects acne. Speaking as someone who cleared their skin from diet after decades of derms and prescription drugs did nothing.

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