How can I change my diet to reduce acne?
I guess no one has mentioned the Paleo Diet. It posits that grain, sugar, and dairy are the problem, not fat. I think you pretty much have to try everything. We all know people who eat crap and drink and smoke and have gorgeous skin…and the opposite. Just one person with hay fever might react to willow pollen and another to ragweed, skin reactions to food seem to vary quite widely. The problem is that it can take some time for the diet to have an effect, so I guess you can look for common threads and work from there. One thing I do is that I monitor the fatty acid composition in my diet so that the ratio of omega-6 to omega-3 is around 3:1 (here is a journal article about the relation http://archderm.ama-assn.org/cgi/reprint/139/7/941-a.pdf). That has kept it in control for me. I eat the Paleo Diet most of the time, but I’m human when I encounter birthday cakes with delicious cream cheese icing. There are lots of good reasons to keep that ra
