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Dietary Treatment of Acne |
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Whether you have adolescent or adult acne, you can find respite
by following a specific natural diet.
Many of the foods that we consume are not a human's natural food
in an evolutionary stance. Your body treats all unnatural foods,
to a certain degree, as a foreign substance. This creates more
work for your body to 'detoxify'. One of the signs that your
body shows when it is burdened by toxins is acne.
Acne may show up on the face, neck, upper arms, and back most
commonly. All types of acne can be treated by following a
natural diet, as closely as possible. The time it takes to
notice improvement varies from days to months, depending on how
burdened your body is and how long it takes you as an individual
to detoxify and reach a more natural state.
The most common 'trigger foods' for acne are milk and all dairy
products, wheat and most grain products, and sugar (speaking
here of refined cane sugar).
Avoiding these foods is usually not enough to completely remove
acne, however. Most people need to eat the most natural diet for humans to
completely control and eliminate acne.
Imagine yourself out in a natural world with only the clothing
you are wearing. You have no stores, no farms, no tools, and no
way to make a |
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fire. What could you eat, without tools and
without fire? This scenario is how humans developed and the food
you could pick and gather is the natural diet that your body
will most readily accept. All other foods, those that require
special tools or cooking are not meant for you.
All animals in nature have a prescribed diet, whether carnivores
(flesh eating), herbivores (greens eating), frugivores (fruit
eating), or omnivores (eats all or a mix of diet). Each animal
is equipped with a body designed to acquire and eat its
prescribed food. Lions are fast, have claws and sharp teeth, and
relish flesh foods. Some birds that eat grains are light to
perch on plants, have beaks adapted to harvest grains, and
special stomachs to grind the grains while whole and very hard.
Think of bees, anteaters, cows, and any other animal. Each has a
natural diet and any other diet may sustain life but not give
optimal life. Life with acne is not optimal life.
Humans are designed to eat certain foods. You would be hard
pressed to eat most grains without cooking them. Potatoes
straight from the ground would be pretty unappetizing. Could you
go out and bring down a deer with only your bare hands? Even
with tools (or if you could just use your hands), would you dig
right in and eat a raw, bloody deer, |
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Title: Get Your Diet Back on Track After Thanksgiving Category: Health News Created: 12/1/2008 Last Editorial Review: 12/1/2008
Thanks to poor dental hygiene, researchers are getting a more detailed understanding of what people ate thousands of years ago in what is now Peru.
'Eat, Shrink & Be Merry" - it's the title of a fun cookbook by two sisters, Janet and Greta Podleski that I found on the 3 Fat Chicks on a Diet Web site (3fatchicks.com).
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