I eat relatively healthy. However, my acne started clearing up. And I wanted to say, to all that think it is diet that is an influence on acne. It's nonsense. After eating "healthy", I gave up and started to eat like I have always eaten. My family is from England, so everything is fattening and terrible for your health. But my acne is clearing up. I don't believe it is diet that causes acne. Just my opinion and had to express it.
I'm gonna have to agree with you on this one. Before I got kicked out of my house, I had a very healthy diet and stuck to it pretty strictly. I had been on that healthy diet for about a year. Then, 2 months ago, I got kicked out and my diet has made a COMPLETE 180 degree turn for the worst. Basically, all I eat is junk food. My face still isn't perfect, but I've actually seen a turn for the better, which doesn't say that a bad diet makes your face better, but it does indicate that your diet doesn't matter. I'm just glad to not be paranoid about every single little thing I decide to eat anymore.
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I agree too. I have had times in my life that I ate unhealthy foods and times that I ate healthy ones. My acne was still there no matter what. People say greasy foods cause acne but this sounds so stupid to me because the grease goes to your stomach, it's not rubbed on your face. My sister eats chocolate and pizza alot and her face is clear. I have a friend who follows the South Beach diet and she has had to go on accutane bc her acne is so bad. There is just too much evidence to support your/my opinion. It is frustrating when someone says to eat right and that will clear up my acne. I've tried that and it didn't work, please someone give us some real advice and no more myths!
My sister eats chocolate and pizza a lot and her face is clear. !
OF COURSE! How many more times? Everyone is different. EVeryone has friends/family who can eat anything they want and yet they never have, maybe never will have a spot on them. They just have better immune systems, more effective digestive systems, better functioning livers/kidneys to excrete all the waste. I am naturally very thin - even if i ate loads of chocolate etc I wouldn't put on any weight. But another person would put on loads of weight - food affects everyone differently.
Just because you have a friend who eats unhealthily and they don't have acne doesn't mean that food does not affect your skin. It's an extraordinarily simplistic argument.
All I'm going to say is that everyone is different.
What is unfavorable for one person isn't always unfavorable for another.
If it is unfavorable to 2 different people, the end result (symptom, problem) may be two seemingly unrelated things (until you research them further and find that they ARE related).
However since you are clearing up, perhaps it's because you are growing out of it. Congrats!
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I agree with sweetjade and euro9. Saying that you know people who eat junk and don't break out is like saying that you know people who smoke but don't have cancer. There's still a link.
I've made some significant changes to my diet (due mainly to things that I've read on this board) and for the first time in decades I'm finally starting to feel optimistic about my skin. I think that people who aren't getting results by "eating healthy" may have some misconceptions about what kinds of foods trigger acne. It takes tons of research and lots of trial and error while you identify your own trigger foods, but when you get there it is so, so worth it!
All I'm going to say is that everyone is different.
What is unfavorable for one person isn't always unfavorable for another.
That's a pretty strong contradiction of everything else I've read from you on this board. You're always insisting that everyone should be on this diet of yours. (And my the way, my acne has taken a very dramatic turn for the WORSE since I quit eating wheat and oats two years ago.)
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However since you are clearing up, perhaps it's because you are growing out of it. Congrats!
That I agree with. Most teenage acne does improve between 16 and 18, although most people don't entirely outgrow it until 20 or so.
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I thought you advocated a non-junkfood diet, kittikat? Wasn't it you who said things went downhill whilst you were on holiday eating junk?
Personally, I think we should all work out for ourselves what effect our diet has on our skin. I think SweetJade has slowly lost the will to reiterate this!
This argument is akin to which religion is right or wrong. A losing battle. I do think it's at least worth a try before diet is dismissed.
I remember when I was around 19 (oh so long ago) and my acne magically disappeared for like 2 months. Just poof it was gone. I did nothing different. Then it came back. What a maniacal disease.
kittikat- what did you find that started clearing your acne?
I am just glad that I can finally resume my original lifestyle and go out to eat with my friends without worrying so much about what I eat. I have really noticed that when I just eat what I want I am breaking out less. I mean I have always ate "healthy". I crave fruits and vegetables, but I am not going to worry about consuming diary products, meat, starchy foods, etc. I swear, I think the stress of eating certain foods contributed to increased acne. I don't know. But I going to live my life and not worry so much about what I eat and if it is contributing to my acne. So hear is throwing caution to the wind.
My acne started clearing up after I went to a dermatologist that my grandparents recommended (after going to so many doctors). She simply stated that instead of using the Retin-A Micro full strength, cut it with my sunscreen at night (so simple). No other doctor told me that my face was too young to initially handle the full strength Retin-A. However, I am now using full strength and doing fine.
My regime:
Wash AM and PM with Neutrogena Foaming Face Wash
AM apply Duac and Neutrogena Healthy Defense Moisturizer with SPF 30.
PM apply Retin-A Micro and Obagi Hydroquinone 4%. The hydroquinone is suppose to kick start the Retin-A and make it work better. I think that may be the trick. But I have to give this regime six months. I started March 25, 2005. I am clear, except I got a couple of pimples before my menstrual cycle. So that is expected. But my face looks great and I am getting compliments. Yeah!!!!!
Und3rcOv3r,
That was not me. I have always advocated that diet probably does not contribute to acne. I have experimented myself with diet and found that if I changed my diet (becoming a vegetarian) my acne became worse. So that is my story.
Sweetjade,
I don't think I grew out of it. I am 34 years old and started breaking out when I was 32 years old. I think it was a combination of my hormones changing. It is common for women in their 20's and 30's to start breaking out. All the research points to a change in hormones during this time.
Sweetjade: "what's favourable to one may not be favourable to another."
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That's a pretty strong contradiction of everything else I've read from you on this board. You're always insisting that everyone should be on this diet of yours. (And my the way, my acne has taken a very dramatic turn for the WORSE since I quit eating wheat and oats two years ago.)
You must be reading it all wrong Crossbow - Sweetjade is always stressing everyone is different. I wouldn't attack someone who is always trying to help. She doesn't try and ram it down our throats like Promotheus did.
If your skin is getting worse since you stopped eating wheat, then u need to try something else. Maybe the things you're eating instead like corn or rice are interfering with your blood sugar levels. Try eating a low-glycemic diet and see if that helps. You can eat some wheat on that.
when are we all going to finally understand that for some people, diet can have a dramatic effect on the quality of their skin and health, and for others, it doesn't matter what they do or don't, their skin will always be just what it is?
sweetjade is a sweetie. i can't possibly follow her diet, but she's changed people's lives for the better, wish i could say the same.
Kittikat,
You sound just like me. I turned 32 and my face started breaking out. I have never had any type of acne. I mean perfect skin until this year. I know it is my hormones. It is nothing major but who wants it. I have been taking vitex, milk thistle and the acne cure regime. When my cycle came I only had 3 zits. I am becoming hopeful. I gave up all acne food for a month and still looked bad. This month I ate normal(which is healthy I shop at Whole Foods) and had much less break outs. If you have any advice about my hormones I would love to hear it
While I somewhat agree with the concept of the post I hope it doesn't send out the wrong message. Diet does not affect acne in everyone but for some people it does. Also, you won't be doing your skin or your body any favors eating unhealthy junk.
An important thing to think about is peoples pre-concieved notions of what is "healthy". Theres alot of confusion out there.
To some, a healthy breakfast is some pasturized, antibioitc/hormone laden cows milk and some proccessed sugary prepackaged breakfast cereal.
Just a thought..But yeah, just because diet isent effecting your acne it is just stupid to think its not effecting your overall health, which is hopefully more/just as important as a few zits on your face. The toxins/bad condtiions from a bad diet are obviously just going to express themselves in a different way, possibly way later on in life.
hi i am trying to figure out my problem, and i have a question, let's say you been eating something all your life (like bread, or chocolate, or whatever) and never had any problem with that, then all the sudden maybe it could affect you? because i will do anything to fix this, eating bugs the rest of my life or something gross like that even!! but maybe since it started happening all the sudden it could be something besides the eating thing?? i am just wondering, cuz i believe about food affecting some people and not others, but can a certain food suddenly just not be tolerated anymore even tho it always was before? ok sorry. thanks for listening if you read my other post, i am really upset cuz my doctor is ignoring me. i am starting to think its some kind of allergy but i have no clue what.....i haven't changed ANYTHING (soaps or anything, pillows, nothing) except i have been trying to eat healthier for the past couple weeks since this happened (about 3-4 weeks ago), it was almost over nite!! my face was being covered in small bumps, most you can't really see, except in certain light, but when i run my hand across my face (which i know your not suposed to do, and i don't, just once or twice i did), it feels like i am reading brail, in other words horriblly bumpy. its also on my neck and i have never had acne there, its on my chest too, slightly on my back but not much. i have had mild acne since like age 13 (i am 24 now) but it was never like this. when i got zits then, the rest of my face remained very smooth actually. i am sorry i am making this thread, about something else.....i am gonna go now
realsad, find the thread titled "sweetjade changed my life! here's how" for diet suggestions there's no one like sweetjade. her diet is pretty strict, but it seems to really work for a lot of people. (i'm not one of them, btw, i use accutane, can't do the diet thing!)
That's a pretty strong contradiction of everything else I've read from you on this board. You're always insisting that everyone should be on this diet of yours. (And my the way, my acne has taken a very dramatic turn for the WORSE since I quit eating wheat and oats two years ago.)
That I agree with. Most teenage acne does improve between 16 and 18, although most people don't entirely outgrow it until 20 or so.
I have NEVER said that anyone should be on MY diet! Furthermore, in no way have I contradicted myself because that is the same thing I keep telling people ad naseum, in different ways, about the way these diets work. That we are all different and that different diets will affect people in a different way. Thus how "Jane" can eat junk and be clear and I can't. That's life, I've dealt with it and I know that I'm better off in a multitude of ways for it. Does that mean that "Jane" can eat junk and not get cancer, diabetes, gain weight/ become obese, have heart disease, or something else....doubtful, BUT Jane does have clear skin ;-) Unfortunately that's what this board is about, getting clear skin, not seeking overall health, but for some of us, it is the SAME thing.
