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Re: 16 yr old daughter
From: Kelley (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Wed, 12 Apr 2000 20:25:47 -0500 (CDT)
At Wed, 12 Apr 2000, Sallie wrote:
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>At Wed, 12 Apr 2000, Kelley wrote:
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>>Sallie, Are your daughters under a dr's care? Or have you been able to find all this out through your own research? It sounds absolutely overwhelming to me! I didn't understand what you meant by the acne sometimes being called sugar diabetes??? Can you explain? And what do you mean by a "whole food diet"?
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>Kelley,
>Have you read my posts on inositol? My last one is under inositol on an
>empty stomach posted yesterday. Having three teenage daughters with
>PCOS I have struggled with all the things that go along with that. For
>one I have to constanstly fight the diet issue without telling them they
>need to lose weight. The low carb diet or more what we do as a whole
>food diet is the best way to clear the skin. We are about to do a liver
>cleansing diet at the beginning of the summer. The acne is actually
>called sugar diabetes by some. My oldest is the one that has suffered
>from acne the most. When she is following a low carb/high whole food
>diet her face looks much better. Also a Bcomplex vitamin with extra B6
>and patothentic acid is also a good idea.(I get the activated forms of
>these vitamins) She also uses a acne treatment system by PROACTIVE that
>helps tremendously. I order it off of QVC off the internet. But still
>if she is eating pizza,bread, pasta, frech fries and just sugar her face
>still gets more broken out but the PROACTIVE has kept the cystic acne
>away. Liver cleansing vitamins and herbs are good for acne. We just
>started milk thistle and alpha lipoic acid that are both liver
>cleansing. Lipoic acid is also extremely excellent for insulin
>resistance and weight loss. Also the inositol that I tell about in my
>other post is a powerful liver cleaner. It clears the liver of fats and
>excess cholesterol. The first two or three months of using inositol my
>oldest's face got a little worse but she would not drink the 8 or more
>glasses of water that I wanted her too to help clear all of it out. She
>is doing low carb again and drinking a ton of water and her face is
>doing great. She also has lost about 15 lbs in a month. I hope this
>helps.
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>Sallie
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Kelley
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