Dramatically Improve Adult Acne with the "Clear Skin Diet"

When it Comes to Your Skin, You Really Are What You Eat!

Yesterday, when my friend Tina came in through my front door, her first words to me were: "Don't look too closely, I'm having an adult acne day!" I could easily relate, as I'm currently on course number three of Accutane.

I've been interested in (and have noticed) the link between diet and acne for years, though for a long time there were only a handful of studies available on the subject. I'd found that my flares of cystic acne over the years always happened after trips abroad: Italy, Mexico, and this time, my latest trip to Spain. I normally stay away from refined flours, sugar, and dairy products (I'm milk protein allergic), but faced with limited healthy options overseas, I typically end up eating everything in sight, and end up looking like one of my favourite "cheat" foods: a pizza.

I'd been on Accutane for a few days, when I ran into naturopath Alan Logan at an event in Vancouver. Logan, who lectures at Harvard, caught my attention years ago because of his emphatic commitment to evidence-based medicine as the basis for his nutritional recommendations. Logan told me that he had just published The Clear Skin Diet, a literature-based book on diet and acne with Massachusetts dermatologist Dr. Valori Treloar. He gave me a copy, and it was all I could do not to stay up all night reading it.