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Whenever i use to eat foods such as pizza, steak or ice cream or anything that is fried, i always get nervous b/c i know i will get new breakouts in my face. And of course i get new pimples etc. I wonder has anyone here just not worried about their acne and then it went away? I know many of us sometimes go and eat something unhealthy then regret it b/c it caused a huge breakout in your face.
But assuming you don't think about it, do you feel like you don't get as much breakouts as oppose if you think a lot?
Someone mentioned don't worry about what you eat, just don't think about it b/c it stresses you out. I stress out a lot b/c of this and its tough for me to not think about. So has anyone here not stress out and not think about acne when eating this and gotten few pimples?
Not only do they stress out, but people inspect, touch and irritate their face more, as well. A lot of the posts on this forum are just the placebo effect. A healthy or an unhealthy diet can aggravate acne in certain people, especially a healthy diet with enough fat. The perfect diet for a person's health is not likely the same diet that will improve their acne, it might even make it worse. If people were told pizza or chocolate helped acne, there would be plenty of posts stating it cured or helped their acne.
I dont think you stressing about having or not having acne is really going to matter, but yes, stress in general can aggravate acne. Also, diet plays a very important part in keeping acne at bay, but once in a while you can pig out on some junk food without worrying. Once in a while in this case means 2-3 times a month thats it.
The perfect diet for a person's health is not likely the same diet that will improve their acne, it might even make it worse.
Ohh. So, so, so untrue. The perfect diet for your health is exactly what will clear your acne. How do you think your body works?
What you want is to eat real, whole nutrient dense foods in low to moderate glycemic load meals, drinks and snacks. Consume more anti-inflammatory foods than inflammatory. And avoid anything that you have an intolerance for. And that is good for absolutely everything that ails you or might ail you in the future. Everything.
Yes, unfortunately it does matter. It may not matter in exactly the way you think, though. You could be like me and convince yourself that a lot of things are causing your acne when they really aren't, but that doesn't mean food allergies or other things don't play a role. Through healing from my eating disorder, I discovered that I can have a lot of foods and be just fine. But unfortunately, I am allergic to certain things and that doesn't go away if I just don't think about it.
At the age of 17, after burning my face with Proactiv, I decided that I would not think about my face or acne ever again. For the next two or three years I lived life like I didn't have an acne problem. Honestly, I sort of forgot about it. I'd see pimples everyday in the mirror, but I wouldn't register them. Perhaps I was in denial. I didn't stress over them but they didn't disappear.
It was only when I got real with myself at the age of 21 and tackled the problem properly (good health and nutrition) did my acne improve.
Don't stress about acne. Stress doesn't achieve anything, it only makes you feel worse.
My advise is get honest with yourself and evaluate the ways you can improve your health.
All the best
The perfect diet for your health is exactly what will clear your acne. How do you think your body works?
Eating nothing but apples for a year will more likely improve acne for someone who has had years of overactive sebaceous glands and severe blackheads. Do you honestly believe It's not possible for the perfect diet to increase sebum production more than some less healthy diet? The perfect diet for my cousin to feel good and live to be 99 might not give him any acne. A similar diet might have the same results for me, but with acne that would be more severe than a diet that caused me to die at age 50.
Eating nothing but apples would be bad for acne and everything else. But that, along with your next several sentences are pointless comments. I suppose its possible for those things to be true, but unlikely. If a truly healthy diet for most people worsens your acne, then you have some kind of digestion issue that you should address, or a food intolerance in which case you need to avoid that food. It isn't healthy for you.
Besides sebum doesn't cause acne.
The perfect diet for your health is exactly what will clear your acne. How do you think your body works?
Eating nothing but apples for a year will more likely improve acne for someone who has had years of overactive sebaceous glands and severe blackheads. Do you honestly believe It's not possible for the perfect diet to increase sebum production more than some less healthy diet? The perfect diet for my cousin to feel good and live to be 99 might not give him any acne. A similar diet might have the same results for me, but with acne that would be more severe than a diet that caused me to die at age 50.
Eating nothing but apples would be bad for acne and everything else. But that, along with your next several sentences are pointless comments. I suppose its possible for those things to be true, but unlikely. If a truly healthy diet for most people worsens your acne, then you have some kind of digestion issue that you should address, or a food intolerance in which case you need to avoid that food. It isn't healthy for you.
Besides sebum doesn't cause acne.
I was just trying to get you to admit that a perfect diet for your health doesn't mean your acne will improve as well. You made it sound as if your statement was always true, which it isn't. i will admit that some unhealthy diets aggravate acne. Eating sugary foods might make a person's acne a little worse, but you can still eat an unhealthy diet without a lot of starchy foods. Avoiding foods that make your acne worse like a cup of sugar everyday for breakfast doesn't mean a person must have a healthy diet, it just means their are certain unhealthy diets that make their acne worse.
Excess sebum is an important contributory cause of acne for many people, that's why accutane helps. Saying excess sebum doesn't cause acne is like saying smoking doesn't cause cancer. Some people wouldn't get cancer if they didn't smoke. It doesn't matter if excess sebum isn't the direct cause.
The perfect diet for your health is exactly what will clear your acne. How do you think your body works?
Eating nothing but apples for a year will more likely improve acne for someone who has had years of overactive sebaceous glands and severe blackheads. Do you honestly believe It's not possible for the perfect diet to increase sebum production more than some less healthy diet? The perfect diet for my cousin to feel good and live to be 99 might not give him any acne. A similar diet might have the same results for me, but with acne that would be more severe than a diet that caused me to die at age 50.
Eating nothing but apples would be bad for acne and everything else. But that, along with your next several sentences are pointless comments. I suppose its possible for those things to be true, but unlikely. If a truly healthy diet for most people worsens your acne, then you have some kind of digestion issue that you should address, or a food intolerance in which case you need to avoid that food. It isn't healthy for you.
Besides sebum doesn't cause acne.
I was just trying to get you to admit that a perfect diet for your health doesn't mean your acne will improve as well. You made it sound as if your statement was always true, which it isn't. i will admit that some unhealthy diets aggravate acne. Eating sugary foods might make a person's acne a little worse, but you can still eat an unhealthy diet without a lot of starchy foods. Avoiding foods that make your acne worse like a cup of sugar everyday for breakfast doesn't mean a person must have a healthy diet, it just means their are certain unhealthy diets that make their acne worse.
Excess sebum is an important contributory cause of acne for many people, that's why accutane helps. Saying excess sebum doesn't cause acne is like saying smoking doesn't cause cancer. Some people wouldn't get cancer if they didn't smoke. It doesn't matter if excess sebum isn't the direct cause.
You were saying that a perfect diet for health might be the opposite of diet for clear skin. And that is untrue. The type of diet that clears skin for anyone except those with some special health concern is the type of diet all human beings should follow for health. And those with with some health issue would follow pretty darn close to the same diet.
Low to moderate glycemic impact. Nutrient dense foods. More ant inflammatory than inflammaty foods. Avoiding anything the individual has an intolerance for.
Sebum exacerbates acne, but there are plenty of people with dry skin and acne, and plenty of people with oily, but clear skin. Poor sebum quality is more the issue, and that can be improved with diet, lifestyle and better topical routines.
Slightly off-topic, but somewhat related to the discussion going on. I know people with extremely oily skin and they do not have a single blemish.
I agree with alternitavista. Like anything we...excrete, what we put into our bodies comes out with it. This is probably not an example people want to hear about, but so what. Semen contains all of the vitamins and minerals (or lack of) to improve the quality of it. I believe that's the same as our sebum.
I've learnt to like sebum rather than fear it. If we didn't need it, our skin wouldn't produce it. We need to find a good balance of sebum that contains everything we need to maintain clear skin. That means a healthy diet.
Yes. Sebum isn't a layer of dead grease on your skin that serves no purpose. It is living cells. It contains nutrients. It produces enzymes involved in normal cell desquammation. And it contains
DHT inhibiting substances.
I remember you said oranges gives you cysts, for me also, why do you think that is? Is it the acidity of it, what other fruits and vegetables do you avoid if you don't mind me asking? Thanks.
Yes. Sebum isn't a layer of dead grease on your skin that serves no purpose. It is living cells. It contains nutrients. It produces enzymes involved in normal cell desquammation. And it contains
DHT inhibiting substances.
I remember you said oranges gives you cysts, for me also, why do you think that is? Is it the acidity of it, what other fruits and vegetables do you avoid if you don't mind me asking? Thanks.
I don't avoid anything else. And I'm not sure what it is. I can have lemons and Persian limes which I think are more acidic than oranges, but can't have key limes which are 3x more acidic than Persian limes.
I think I am allergic, but there is also citrus intolerance. There's some info in the allergy thread recently bumped.
http://www.acne.org/messageboard/topic/200416-what-i-found-about-ige-vs-igg-food-allergies/
I can tell you that not worrying about your acne doesn't get rid of it. I definitely went through a phase where I stopped caring about acne, noticing it was there, or doing anything about it. When I woke up from the haze a few years later, it was worse...
I am on a prescription hormonal medication that keeps my skin clear as long as I keep taking it. So I am getting to experience not thinking about acne AND not having acne. Actually the only time I think about acne now is when I come on these boards (I haven't been on regularly for months now). But even when I was on vacation on a sunny foreign beach, definitely not thinking about acne, and I left my spiro pills at home...like clockwork a few zits surfaced after a week of no meds. Anyway I'm just pointing out that "thinking about acne" doesn't really have an effect. Stress does for sure, so if you're going psychosomatic over a zit, maybe it's making you worse. But the typical "gosh acne SUCKS and why does my face have to be a WARZONE" type of stress isn't going to make much of a difference either way.