Instead substitute a diet high in green leafy vegetables, fruits and trace minerals to encourage acne prevention. Most people are deficient in magnesium and iodine which are found in sea vegetables, mozzarella cheese, cow’s milk, strawberries and spinach. Try to avoid adding supplements but instead use the actual foods to add the minerals and vitamins to your diet.
A diet high in Vitamin A and beta carotene is also beneficial to your skin. You’ll find both those essential vitamins in carrots, broccoli and other green leafy vegetables.
Those trying to prevent acne should also avoid soda at all costs! Fluids are important to your overall health and glow of your skin and they help to flush out the toxins from your body. Water is the best fluid that you can drink. Most other fluids are full of excess sugar and other chemicals that aren’t good for you and only increase the chances that skin will break out in whiteheads or pustules.
Acne prevention also includes good personal hygiene. Keeping the oils from your hair off of your face will help to decrease pimple outbreaks. Keep your hands off your acne! It may be tempting to touch, pick or peel but doing this just aggravates the condition and increases the risk for infection and scarring.
Don’t cover your acne with make up or cosmetics. Try to abstain from using makeup at all. Make up aggravates the pimples and makes you look like you have pimples covered by make up. When you do wear make up use non-comedogenic makeup that doesn’t clog your pores.
References:
(1) National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases: What is Acne?
http://www.niams.nih.gov/health_info/acne/acne_ff.asp
Resources:
National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases: Questions and Answers about Acne
http://www.niams.nih.gov/health_info/acne/
Natural news: Research Shows Inflammation Causes Acne
http://www.naturalnews.com/031605_inflammation_acne.html
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