A Link Between The Diet And Acne

How to know acne is caused by certain foods, without having to buy anything?

Foods don't seem to be related to acne. But if you feel that some foods make your acne worse, you may want to avoid those foods.

That is easy. All you need to do is to eliminate ALL foods that can cause acne (for example: foods that increase Heat in the body, fat, spicy foods, garlic, and coffee), for about one to two weeks. During this period you will see a drastic improvement in your skin complexion and you should keep on maintain this strict procedure until your skin is totally clear, and then you have your proof. Of course you can keep on maintaining this diet forever, but that is extremely hard and also not necessary. Once your skin is totally clean, you can either do your own experiments or you can start adding 'munch-foods' that are the least 'acne-causing' to your diet, to the extend that you want your skin to be clean. The big difference is that you are in control about how clear you want your skin to be, instead of that the acne rules your life.

Diet factors -- Foods to avoid include:

• Dairy products (milk, cheese, cream, yogurt etc)
• Refined and cooked carbohydrates (flour, bread, rice, crisps and chips, sugar etc)
• Cooked fats (fried food, hydrogenated oils, roasted nuts)
• Meat (beef, pork, chicken, lamb etc)

All the above foods are acid-forming in the body. If you really want to get rid of acne, you need to eat more alkaline-forming foods -- fresh vegetables and fruit, nuts (sparingly) and seeds. The foods to avoid listed above also cause a sluggish digestive system. If food travels too slowly through the body, toxins build up and aren't carried away by the usual processes and are expelled via the skin, causing acne. That's why you need to drink plenty of purified water or spring water (up to 8 glasses of water a day) to flush out toxins and transport nutrients.