PCOS-DIET Messages for June, 2001: Re: How diet can ease acne

Re: How diet can ease acne

From: Stella (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Tue, 5 Jun 2001 11:35:42 -0500 (CDT)

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At Fri, 1 Jun 2001, Lou wrote: >
>Hi,
>
>I anm a PCOS sufferer with severe acne covering my face and shoulders.
>
>I already avoid dairy products and eat a lot of soya-based foodstuffs. I
>am not vegetarian and enjoy most foods. At 5'8 and 117lbs, I appear to
>have escaped the harrowing weight gain that many of you have discussed;
>but I have started to notice excess hair on my chin now as well.
>
>Please help -- it's all starting to make me quite depressed!
>
>(And one final thing -- I have tried the pill and various antibiotics --
>with little success.)
>
>Is carb avoidance the only way to go?
>
>Thx,
>Lou x

Lou

I'm afraid carbs are they key........

I have had skin problems my whole life (now 35). Sugar is the main agitant I find. I was only diagnosed 8 months ago with PCOS, at that time I had a face like a Pizza (spots like boils). I have refined my diet with a mixture of "sugar busters" and "Atkins".

Basically the diet is no sugar at all, in anything (I use artificial sweetners). Nothing which is made from white flour like bread, pastry or pasta (I buy wholemeal varieties). No White rice only brown rice.

No potatoes. I never eat simple carbohydrates on their own as they turn to glucose as soon as they are digested. Complex carbohydrates like those I have described take longer to digest and so do not create glucose spikes, which cause an insulin rush, which stops your hormones working, which lets your free testerone level rise......which gives you acne and makes you fatter because insulin makes your body store the glucose as fat.

But I now have gorgeous skin and I am 16 pounds lighter. So it's not all bad, and diabetic ice cream is quite good substitute.

Good Luck.

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