While the food-acne relationship gets more and more press, I find my patients are asking me what they are “allowed” to eat.   We’ll be doing many future posts on the complex issues of nutrition, wellness, and acne later this year but I wanted to touch on this issue here briefly.   

Here’s a couple points to bring the food-acne relationship back into proper perspective:

1) While eating a balanced diet is good for every cell in the body,   fear and obsessing about eating the “wrong” foods can cause a real stress…., which can cause acne.   

2) None of the patients in these videos were given any dietary restrictions whatsoever.  Some were already conscious vegetarians with chronic, severe acne while others kept an unconscious diet throughout the whole program.

3) obsession, fear, and mania over nutritional supplements can cause a real emotional stress, thus causing medical disease.

Brief Bottom Line:  the more one attempts to simplify and control this problem with quick fixes,  the more one risks creating an obsessive-compulsive personality that is riddled with stress and disease.   Eat consciously, do not hope and wait, do not live in fear of food, and learn to trust others for help in areas where you consistently struggle.

©2009 “Are you Scared of Food??”   by Dr. Neal Schwartz