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1BChapter 2—The Truth About Acne
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Again, why is the body lacking energy? Because we feed it with poison
instead of real food loaded with nutrients and energy.
The natural approach is based on the belief that there are many types of food
that can cause acne to appear. Foods with high levels of toxins as well as
acid-forming foods, refined carbohydrates, dairy products and hydrogenated
fats are direct causes for a dysfunctional digestive system (clogging and toxic
accumulation). A dysfunctional digestive system usually fails to evacuate toxic
waste, resulting in the elimination of waste via the skin pores.
A study that investigated the connection between diet and acne supported
these claims when it showed that non-Western populations (Kitavan Islanders
in Papua New Guinea and hunter-gatherers in Paraguay) had low blood
insulin levels and hardly any cases of acne and other typical Western
maladies (obesity and diabetes) compared to Western populations, who had
high blood insulin levels and suffered from all these illnesses including acne.
The difference between the populations was rooted in the eating habits of
each population. While Western populations were consuming refined and
simple carbohydrates including all sorts of toxic foods, processed and dairy
products (potato chips, chocolate and other snack foods), the hunters were
maintaining a diet consisting of fruits, vegetables, roots, nuts and fish.
The high insulin levels in the blood were in fact the direct result of the Western
diet producing excessive amounts of insulin, which stimulated the
overproduction of sebum in the skin—the same sebum that encourages the
growth of bacteria that cause the formation of acne.
Fluctuations in blood sugar level (due to consumption of foods with high
glycemic load—GL), cause insulin levels to become elevated, thus lowering
IGFBP-3, a beneficial hormone tha