Acne and Diet – Part 5 – Sugar
Acne Diet and Sugar: The Sweet Poison
The average American consumes an astounding 2-3 pounds of sugar every 7 days, which isn’t surprising bearing in mind that highly refined sugars in the types of sucrose (table sugar), dextrose (corn sugar), and high-fructose corn syrup are being refined into so many foods for example bread, breakfast cereal, mayonnaise, peanut butter, ketchup, spaghetti sauce, plus a plethora of microwave meals.
In the last twenty years, we’ve increased sugar consumption in America 26 lbs. to 135 lbs. of sugar per person per year. Before the turn of this century (1887-1890), the typical consumption was only 5 lbs. per person per year!
In addition to the fact that sugar is known as a 100% pure substance with zero dietary value, up to date studies have visibly shown a relation between the ingestion of sugar and the exasperation of bad skin.
What happens when you eat refined foods?
Whenever you eat any form of refined carbohydrates (white sugar, white flour, white rice) here’s what happens. Right after you add that ‘sweet poison’ into the body, it quickly spikes up your blood sugar levels. Your body needs bring those levels down so it secrets a surge of insulin, other male hormones and an insulin-like growth factor called IGF-1.
The excretion of these hormones overwhelms your liver plus your internal system in general. The surplus of male hormones encourages skin to excrete large quantities of sebum oil: The greasy substance that encourages the p.acne bacteria to grow, resulting in the aggravation of the acne.
So now you know why white sugar is considered as a poison to the acne sufferer. Some food for thought, pardon the pun!
We Hope you enjoyed our series exploring Acne and Diet.
Acne Free Now you have enjoyed our final installment in the Acne and Diet series, Acne and Diet – Part 5 – Sugar.
Of course we are not suggesting that you become a farmer and grow all of your own food, but just consider a diet that is based organic fresh produce is much closer to the diet of the Native peoples than highly processed ready made foods made for nothing more than convenience. Fast foods and convenience foods are not made and produced for nutritional value, they are purely made to taste good for those individuals who do not have time or can not be bothered preparing fresh and healthy meals.
This is the simple truth about acne and diet. In the equal way that crashing waves form seashore cliffs and the same as the wind shapes the canyon walls, slowly and systematically over time, so does eating shapes and effects our psychological, our internal system, our physical and mental being, from the organ right down to the cellular level.
I’m sure the last few paragraphs has you thinking. It’s like the age old saying, “Garbage in, garbage out”. You are, in effect, what you eat. If you continue to feed your body rubbish your body will eventually start to fail, usually many years before you expect. Acne is a symptom, your body telling you that something is out of balance. Minor aliments usually are. 
Jan Littlehales (2)
Jill Brown (2)
Lisa Wood (2)
Sean (2)
Wal Heinrich (2)
Body Treatme... (1)
Christopher (1)
Doctor Bill (1)
eren (1)
Harry Lynn (1)
