Aloe Vera and Acne
A Well Balanced Diet Will Definitely Improve Your Skin
Part 1: Dietary Aspects
A well balanced diet will definitely improve your skin.
Acne is one of the most common afflictions skin diseases in the United States. It is not contagious, but rather develops most prevalently during the teenage years. Acne affects 85% of the population between the ages of 12 and 24. Approximately 60 million Americans have active acne.
There are two factors to the skin condition known as acne, first is the predisposition of an individual to get acne, such as hereditary and hormonal aspects. Second is the environmental causes of acne, such as diet, personal hygiene, and skin irritants. I will discuss the causes of acne and the various ways to reduce the severity of acne. Since there is little that can be done to diminish hereditary or hormonal factors, those factors of acne affliction will not be discussed further. Rather I shall focus on what a patient can actively do to reduce the second factor, the environmental causes of acne.
Part 1 of this topic is the aspect of diet. Part 2 relates to personal hygiene, and part 3 to skin irritants.
A very effective way of keeping your diet healthy.
Regarding diet and acne, it is controversial in medical research literature as to whether food-related reactions increase the severity of acne. Undeniably, most studies show little correlation of various foods to acne acuteness. There is, however, no controversy among the medical researchers that a well balanced diet, with a healthy inclusion of fresh fruit and vegetables, coupled with adequate water (water, not soda) will definitely improve your skin. Such a diet reduces an individual’s skin sensitivity to the other environmental factors, such as skin irritants. The regular drinking of aloe vera juice is one very effective way of keeping your diet balanced and healthy. Also, aloe vera has been identified as being beneficial to the overall health of the skin, both when applied topically or when consumed internally. I recommend two to eight ounces of Aloe Vera juice per day to help improve the condition of your skin and reduce its sensitivity to other acne causing factors.
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