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Treat Acne with a Low Glycemic Diet
Author: Simon Evans
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Copyright (c) 2007 The Brain Code LLC
Do you or your kids have acne problems? The majority of
adolescents and a small number of adults deal with significant
facial blemishes. I remember going through a bought in my early
20's. It can be difficult for teens and young adults entering
the dating years if they are always worrying about how they
look. If your kids are struggling with acne, you may be able to
help them out now, while setting them up for a healthier future
at the same time.
An interesting article published recently in the American
Journal of Clinical Nutrition described improvements in teenage
acne using a low glycemic diet. I have written many articles
before on the glycemic index. Typically, I have focused on the
benefit of a low glycemic diet for weight loss, chronic disease
prevention and energy level increases. However, this new study
suggests that it is also beneficial for acne therapy.
In the study, the investigators recruited 15 - 25 year old
boys/men with acne problems. They instructed half of them to eat
low glycemic foods and the other half continued eating mostly as
they had been. They made sure that the change in diet did not
differ from the amount of calories they were already eating;
they didn't want weight loss to be a factor. The investigators
also made sure that the participants didn't now that they were
being checked for acne treatments - to avoid a placebo effect.
Instead, they thought it was a test for monitoring protein to
carbohydrate ratios.
After 12 weeks of dietary intervention the low glycemic diet
group had significant improvements in their acne compared to
before they started on the diet and compared to the control
group. This is another ingenious example of how to use lifestyle
choices to address problems that we often resort to drug
treatments for.
The cause of acne is still mostly unknown. Way back in the
1930's doctors believed that it had something to do with blood
sugar, but this fell out of favor with some research in the late
1960's. More recently, that later work has been called into
question and the concept that acne has something to do with
carbohydrate metabolism and blood sugar has gained ground again.
This new study suggests that the blood sugar metabolism theory
may have some validity.
To revisit, low glycemic foods are those that don't spike your
blood sugar. They consist of proteins and complex carbohydrates,
typically higher in fiber, that burn slowly and give you
sustained energy release. We don't completely understand the
reason why these foods would be good for acne treatment, but it
seems to have something to do with insulin levels.
High glycemic diets spike insulin levels by spiking blood sugar.
Insulin, in turn, affects a whole bunch of other hormones that
are especially raging in teenagers and young adults and this
appears to stimulate acne.
You don't need to understand all the nuts and bolts of the
biology to get the benefit. The great thing is that this new
data will arm you with some reasons to convince your teens to
adopt a healthy low glycemic diet. They will probably care much
more about eating foods that will help clean up their face now,
than they will about preventing heart disease and diabetes in
their forties and fifties. But paying attention to what they eat
will help them now and later.
About the author:
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