Acne and Diet: Why You Need to Pay Attention to What You Eat with Acne

You might be asking yourself, what does acne have to do with my diet?  Well, when you think about it, it's quite simple.  Imagine if you ate nothing but donuts and coffee for breakfast every morning, had a chocolate fudge Pop-tart for morning snack, enjoyed McDonald's takeout for lunch, slurped a chocolate milkshake for afternoon snack, grazed on a frozen TV dinner in front of "Law and Order" every night, and topped it off with a bowl of mint chocolate chip ice cream for midnight snack.  What would your body look like on the inside?  You'd be carrying 200 pounds of fat, spiking your cholesterol level sky-high, pumping your blood full of unnecessary sugar, and putting your liver, spleen, pancreas, and intestines into overdrive.  Well, this might or might not surprise you, but your skin would be no different.  It would be suffering the same kind of nutritional famine the rest of your body would experience, except it would be in the form of raging red acne.So do you see how acne and diet have EVERYTHING to do with each other?  In order to properly get rid of toxins in your body, your organs eject them in all sorts of places, your skin included.  Even if you don't eat all the junk described above, you still probably have no idea what your body really needs to fight off acne.  The more toxins you pour in on a daily basis means the more toxins that come into contact with layers of your internal skin, which will eventually surface, helping cause cysts, zits, pustules, and blackheads - all known otherwise as acne.