The Anti-Acne Diet - The Anti-Pimple Diet

Avoid food or additives that you’re allergic to!

Eating food or additives that you’re allergic to can create toxic reactions!
The immune system interprets the food that you’re allergic to as an invading organism or unwanted organism – therefore it fights to eliminate it. This can cause skin inflammation


The most common food and additive allergies are:

  • Tree Nuts
  • Peanuts
  • Cow’s Milk
  • Eggs
  • Soy
  • Wheat
  • Fish
  • Shellfish
  • Tartrazine, or yellow No.5 (an additive)
  • Aspartame, or NutraSweet (an artificial sweetener)

Avoid Inflammatory Foods

Our body has 2 types of chemicals – prostagladins (inflammatory) and anti-prostagladins (anti-inflammatory). An improper diet can lead to the creation of excessive amounts of inflammatory prostaglandins, which causes your body to experience inflammation response and possible pimple and acne breakouts.

 

Here’s a list of inflammatory food (Acne Causing Foods):

  1. Pasteurized Diary Products: milks, yogurts, cheeses, etc.
  2. Refined Sugar: white sugar, brown sugar, high fructose corn syrup, turbinado, etc. Replace these with Stevia, agave syrup, date paste, fruit purees, honey, and barley malt syrup.
  3. Artificial Sweeteners: Nutrasweet, Splenda, Equal. Aspartame breaks down to methanol which forms formaldehyde in body. Formaldehyde increases arthritic symptoms.
  4. Red Meat: Reduce or avoid in diet.
  5. MSG-preservatives found in foods, particularly Chinese foods.
  6. Caffeine: coffee, tea, soda, etc. Reduce or eliminate in diet; no more than one cup of coffee per day. When choosing coffee go organic.
  7. Alcohol
  8. Common Table Sweet: switch to unrefined Celtic Sea Salt or a salt free herb blend like Mrs. Dash.
  9. Processed Foods: Reduce or avoid. Boxed foods, flavoured yogurts, fast foods, luncheon meats, candies, etc. Try to eat most of your food closest to its natural form.
  10. Vegetables in Nightshade Family: Reduce or avoid. Eggplant, potatoes, tomatoes, peppers, and tobacco.
  11. Consider going Gluten Free as many people have an unknown intolerance or allergy to gluten which causes inflammation. There are plenty of gluten free alternative products such as breads, pastas, and other baked goods available. Also many manufacturers are labeling their products if they are gluten free.

To combat inflammatory response, have more anti-inflammatory foods.

Here’s a list of anti-inflammatory food (Acne-Fighting Foods):

  1. Bok Choy, Broccoli, Brussels Sprouts, Cabbage, Cauliflower, Chard, Collards, Fennel, Garlic, Green Beans, Onions, Kale, Leeks, Olives, Spinach, Turnip Greens
  2. Apples, Avocados, Currants, Blueberries, Pineapple (fresh only), Guavas, Kiwi, Kumquats, Lemons, Limes, Oranges, Papaya, Raspberries, Rhubarb, Strawberries
  3. Basil, Cayenne, Cinnamon, Cloves, cocoa, Licorice, Mint, ginger, Oregano, Parsley, Rosemary, Thyme, Turmeric
  4. Almonds, Flaxseed, Hazelnut, Sunflower Seeds, Walnuts
  5. Avocado Oil, Extra Virgin Olive Oil
  6. Cod, Halibut, Herring, Rainbow Trout, Salmon, Sardines, Snapper, Striped Bass, Tuna, Whitefish

 

Recommendations:

    • Eat more sulphur containing foods such as Asparagus, Eggs, Garlic, and Onions.  Also green leafy vegetables, non-acidic fruits, whole grains, oatmeal, brown rice, and fish.
    • Consume foods containing the amino acid histidine such as brown rice, wheat and rye.  Histidine helps remove heavy metals from the body; people with arthritis are found to have high concentrations of heavy metals in body.  You can be tested through a hair sample for heavy metals.
    • Eat FRESH pineapple frequently.  The enzyme bromelain is excellent for reducing inflammation.  Canning and freezing pineapple destroys this enzyme.
    • Increase fiber in diet.  Get 30-50 g per day from ground flaxseed, oat bran, rice bran, whole grains, fresh fruits and vegetables.
    • Reduce amount of animal fat in diet.
    • Reduce total protein intake toward 10-15% of total calories.  Get majority of protein from fish and plant sources such as beans, lentils, peas, soybeans, etc.
    • Do not take iron supplements or multi-vitamins containing iron.  Get iron from food sources such as blackstrap molasses, broccoli, Brussels sprouts, cauliflower, fish, lima beans, and peas.  Also cook in black iron skillets.

Avoid High Glycaemic Index (Gi) foods

What is Glycaemic Index (Gi)?
GI stands for Glycaemic Index, a ranking of foods based on the speed at which they raise blood glucose levels.

  • Foods that break down quickly are given high values – they raise blood glucose very quickly.
  • Foods that break down slowly are given low values – they raise blood glucose more slowly.

 

Low Gi foods are digested slowly and cause a slow and steady rise (and fall) in blood glucose. Slower digestion helps to make you feel full for long and delay hunger pangs.

 

A good example of a Hi-GI food is sugar.

Here’s the scary fact about Hi-GI foods:
Hi-GI food causes your body to have inflammation response, and that causes you to have acne breakouts easily. And what happens when your body suddenly experiences a sudden rise of glucose level in your blood? Insulin and other hormones will be released. Cortisol hormones are also released. And as you should know now, Cortisol hormone causes your sebaceous glands to produce more sebum.

 

Yikes! Imagine… more facial oil and your body experiences inflammatory response!


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