{"id":8750,"date":"2014-08-06T12:06:07","date_gmt":"2014-08-06T12:06:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/acneeinstein.com\/?p=2287"},"modified":"2018-11-02T18:28:53","modified_gmt":"2018-11-02T18:28:53","slug":"yet-another-study-shows-diet-affect-acne","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/acneeinstein.com\/yet-another-study-shows-diet-affect-acne\/","title":{"rendered":"Yet Another Study Shows Diet Does Affect Acne"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If anyone still claims <a title=\"Debunking The REAL Diet Acne Myth\" href=\"https:\/\/acneeinstein.com\/debunking-real-acne-diet-myth\/\">diet causing acne is a myth<\/a>, a recently published study puts another nail to that coffin.<\/p>\n<p>This is going to be a rather short post since the paper is in Russian and I can only write based on the English abstract. Fortunately, the abstract covers the main findings, which I duly present below.<\/p>\n<p>The numbers are what the authors call <em>power of influence<\/em>. I\u2019m not quite sure what they mean with that, but I assume it signifies the importance of that particular factor. The higher the number the more that factor increased acne.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Excess calories: men: 43% \/ women: 42%<\/li>\n<li>Carbohydrates in excess of normal requirements (what those requirements are, I can\u2019t say): men: 23% \/ women 35%<\/li>\n<li>Dietary vitamin A deficiency (retinol, animal form): 44% \/ 42%<\/li>\n<li>Dietary carotene deficiency (plant form of vitamin A): 46% \/ 31%<\/li>\n<li>Dietary vitamin D deficiency: Only affected men with severe acne 30%<\/li>\n<li>Dietary zinc deficiency: 44% \/ 34%<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Few caveats. The authors used vague language in the abstract. They talked about \u2018deficiency\u2019 with regard to vitamin D and \u2018lack of\u2019 with regard to the other micronutrients. I assume they talked about dietary deficiency instead of low blood levels, but I can\u2019t be sure as I don\u2019t have access to the full text version. It\u2019s also not clear where the deficiency cut off points are. I\u2019m assuming they uses Russian RDA figures or other such officially established values.<\/p>\n<p>This paper more or less confirms what we already knew. The interesting bits, for me, are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Women react more strongly to carbohydrates than men. This is not surprising as women are more prone to <a title=\"Hormonal Acne: How Hormones Affect The Skin\" href=\"https:\/\/acneeinstein.com\/hormonal-acne\/\">hormonal acne<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Zinc affects men more than women. This could mean men are more prone to <a title=\"Struggling To Get Clear? Make Sure You Are Treating The Right Acne Type\" href=\"https:\/\/acneeinstein.com\/acne-types\/\">inflammatory-type acne<\/a> than women.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This is yet another study that supports the notion that diet affects acne. Interestingly, all the studies published in the last 2 decades confirm this. Yet, many dermatologists still tell their patients not to worry about diet. Sad, is all I can say.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If anyone still claims diet causing acne is a myth, a recently published study puts another nail to that coffin. This is going to be a rather short post since the paper is in Russian and I can only write based on the English abstract. 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