by Mike Walden

The diet and acne balloon has at last been blown. A section of the medical profession who believed there was no link between a person’s daily diet and his or her having acne has now admitted the fallacy. Studies on the topic conducted quite recently have shown the convincing connection between diet and the disease condition that none can deny. The very fact that addition or withdrawal of certain types of food item from someone’s menu affects the person’s hormonal secretion to a great extent, thereby creating dramatic changes in his or her acne manifestations is fairly noteworthy.

It is therefore, a simple corollary that our dietary options have a strong cumulative effect on our physical pathology as well as soul that shapes our body and mind. Appropriate diet shapes us from the inside and outside at the same time. The earlier theory of diet having no impact on chronic pathological conditions like acne, therefore, is a myth.

Evidence relating to the topic has been provided by Dr. Cordian who had conducted a research on people living in Kitavan Islands where the residents never had acne in their lifetime though there was no dermatologist available in that remote island to advise the innocent natives how best to prevent acne, and there have been no drugs as well. It was nothing but traditional food they consumed which prevented the disease condition.

Researchers recorded a strong connection between certain type of food that include refined carbohydrates, hydrogenated oils, dairy products and yeasty savories and acne. Removal of these items from the menu of an acne sufferer, they were surprised to observe, yielded a decline in the virulence of the disease condition. However the diet alone will not work as a cure for acne.

Selective food alone cannot prevent or cure acne. That is because it is but one of the several contributory factors that trigger acne. There are other more complex factors which collectively contribute towards the formation of acne. In fact, this multi-dimensional disease condition may first be internally controlled through diet but for a radical cure, the only way out is holistic treatment that ensures that all these internal factors are fixed for lifelong acne freedom. But changing the diet is a good starting point.

The concluding line in this minor treatise once again reflects the researcher’s firm faith in the link between food and acne. There is no diet specifically for people having acne. Eating incorrect food cannot directly cause acne because we would then all have them. But that does not happen. While eating the correct food is important, the internal environment of the body also needs to be fixed for an acne free life and this can best be achieved through holistic remedies.

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