Dietary Advice
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What to Eat
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Eat Grapes and Red Wine Vinegar to improve the cleanliness
of your blood and improve circulation. This effectively reduces
garbage from collecting into places where ACNE will form.

Floss your teeth often. The cleaner, the less chances of your
blood system having garbage in it coming from your gums. Brush
your teeth after meals.

Eat yogurt, as it is well known it will clean your bowels out
in a way that will make your blood so clean, your skin will see
the difference. Get the organic with lactobacillus acidophilus.
The more of these eacterial cultures, the cleaner your bowels,
the less your acne.

Eat lots of fiber to keep bowels clean. This means figs, bananas,
even fruit (apples, whatever). It works.

Eat lettuce, but don't have any dressing other than vinegar on it.
Avoid all those other dressings, and avoid fried vegetables (see
below).

What NOT to Eat
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Don't eat anything with fat in it, of cours.

Don't eat ANY oil, especially!, don't eat anything fried:
stay away from fries, spring rolls, fried meat, anything
deep fried, donuts, fried whatever, no matter how much
you like to eat it.

It makes me so mad. People tell me, come on, eat some of
this junk, it won't harm you. To these people I don't know
what the hell to tell them. I'd like to say, I'm sorry, but
my ACNE is so bad, I can't eat anything with oil or fat. What
the hell is people's problem: if you're not fatter than them
they want you to eat fat. Who cares about fat. Does anyone
think of the ACNE side effects which are much worse???
Must I explain!!!!

So, we've all seen it, those people that eat junk every day,
they all got a zillion zits, and it's no wonder why. To hell
with what doctors say. Nobody tells the truth these days.
So here you have it. The trick is to remember it all, and
really do this stuff.

I second that. Eat well & look, well better...


"Acne Emperor" <acneemperor@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:baff7df6.0408261027.6e41c38c@posting.google.c om...

I forget to mention one thing: grrrr..........

butter!!!! Whenever I eat out it's there, and I forget
to ask for no butter, but it's everywhere, and needless
to say, how many of us eat well, and one day eat butter,
and the next day it's out there. I hate people that say
"don't be silly, it won't hurt you". And then, the next
day, there it is, unmodified, unchanged, as pure butter
gone directly from my bowels into my blood stream,
chemically unaltered, and pop, the darned zit!!!!
Zits!!!!!!!!!! Butter!!!!!!! Grrrrr............

So, when you eat out, no need to explain: just say
"forget it, I'm not eating butter". Ditch the butter
and those fat vinegrettes, and let's go, no new zits
on the block, thanks.

"adam.day3" <adam.day3@ntlworld.com> wrote in message news:<9qrXc.1110$Jn6.779@newsfe5-win.ntli.net>...

i dont want to live in a world when i cant get butter on my stack of
pancakes. you communist!
d.

"Acne Emperor" <acneemperor@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:baff7df6.0408262258.51529c18@posting.google.c om...

It's an excellent idea to avoid junk food. Some people, no matter what they
do in terms of diet, exercise, and general lifestyle changes, continue to
have acne that requires medical treatment. You may be an example of the
extremely fortunate individual whose skin responds just to changes in diet.
It's unfair, however, to suggest that an improved diet will be a panacea for
all people with acne.

Obviously, if an individual notices a connection between eating a certain
food, for example, chocolate, shell fish, spinach, fried foods, and
breakouts, (s)he should avoid those foods. But not everyone has such clear
flags.

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"Acne Emperor" <acneemperor@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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I for one do not have a problem with diet and acne. When I was 16 I took
accutane and everything cleared up. I was clear for 20 years, and during that
time, I drank Pepsi, Coke, ate all kinds of cakes, cookies and pies, fried
foods, etc... and did not have but an occasional pimple (which cleared up in a
day or two).
Now, since last September 2003. I have been breaking out. I am not talking
about just a pimple or two, I am talking about huge cysts. I tried everything
to no avail. Suffered many months and finally went to my doctor, who prescribed
Keflex (500 mg twice a day) and Tazorac crean (gave that up after a week). I
have been on the Keflex for nearly 2 months now and have seen some
improvements, but not where I want to be. I do not break out with the huge
cysts, but have smaller ones that come in groups.
Guess I actually need to know: should I go back to my doctor and ask for
something else, or stick it out with the Keflex( I have refills till the end of
the year)? My doctor will not prescribe Accutane, as he said it is a "bad"
drug, but yet it helped me out as a teen. Any advise?

--Accutane did not work for nearly as long a period for me, but when it worked
it worked wonderfully well (apart from the dry lips.).

--It didn't matter what I ate, not that I went out of my way to eat badly. I
hate it when people -- other than people who have seen a direct relationship
between acne and a specific food -- get fetishistic about diet. There are so
many things that cause frustration in this life that there's no point in adding
specious causes.

--Frankly I sometimes wonder if more people don't have adult acne because of
our toxic environment, including our food. Or maybe part of it is that
everybody didn't feel as great a need to be perfect in the past. Maybe more
people are seeking treatment now than in the past, I really don't know. The
advertising industry is exploiting us, perhaps.

--I'm not saying that seeking treatment is necessarily a bad thing; if help is
available, why not take advantage of it?


--I've never had serious cystic acne and am not familiar with Keflex. I took
Tazorac gel for several months for acne vulgaris. It didn't work. Another
regime I stayed on for months at the urging of a dermatologist. The peeling
caused by the T gel helped a little, but nothing near what could be called
control of the condition. It also was extremely frustrating to exfoliate all
the skin flakes that were partially shed by the med, esp. if one had to be
somewhere fast.



--My advice is to press the doctor for something else and if it doesn't work
seek a new doctor who will prescribe Accutane or something similar for a
five-month course.

--Acne is just too unpleasant a condition to be lived with if there is a med
that can control it and the risks are reasonable. I assume that before taking
another course of Accutane:

--You'd make sure to reduce the number of prescription drugs you're taking
during the course.

--If a woman, you're not planning to become pregnant. (I hope you didn't
mention that you shave your face or something similar in your earlier post.)

--You're aware that at least for some adolescents (I know you're not one)
there's been a suggested linkage between depression and Accutane (not for me;
although I also wasn't a teenager; but the relief of being free of acne was a
big mood booster, although of course it didn't solve all my problems.).

--You're planning on living in a generally healthy manner, eating well,
exercising, not smoking, not drinking to excess. You should be trying to do
that whether or not you're taking Accutane. Esp. since you're no longer a kid.

--If you can say yes in response to all of the following statements and have
been diligently following the doctor's instructions I think you're well w/i
your rights to press the doctor for something more effective or to move on to a
doctor who would be willing to give you a second course of Accutane or some
other similar treatment if that's the only thing that will work. (I assume
you've tried other retinoid creams, like Retin-A. I don't know how well they
work for cystic acne.)

--No, Accutane is not an ideal medication; but in my experience it does work
like no other, at least for a time, and one has to look at the overall picture
and consider how strongly the individual feels about his/her condition. When I
think about the stupid comments I've gotten over the years from doctors and lay
people (Acne is not a character-building condition; or put it this way: There
are far better alternatives.) I still get angry.

--BTW, you should get your health checked out in general; there's probably no
connection to your skin condition, but you never know.

---There was an earlier post about a combination of Clean & Clear BP and SA,
but even if effective for AV, it probably wouldn't work for cystic acne.

--But don't feel guilty about being frustrated and angry with your current
doctor, if that's how you feel. And anyone who thinks that acne is merely a
superficial cosmetic condition obviously has never had a serious case.

hth

"person2000" <person2000@mail.anonymizer.com> wrote in message news:<icWXc.3741$NC6.3285@newsread1.mlpsca01.us.to .verio.net>...

I am not saying diet is the sole culprit,
but I do think it plays a role. Trust me.