Acne Magazine

Well, we all know the answer to this one!  Yes, quitting junk food will definitely help our acne, although just doing this alone is of course not the full answer as to how to permanently rid the skin of acne and acne rosacea.  It’s not that easy to quit those bad junk foods that we all love. 

For me, it might be my love for chocolate or salty and fatty snacks like Fritos that occasionally attacks that I have to watch myself with.  For others, it could be those trips to  fast food joints like McDonald’s and Taco Bell that they need to watch and severely curb to get them off the path to larger thighs, bellies, and worse skin. 

It’s different with everyone, but there’s no doubt that most of us have something programmed into our appetites that makes us crave certain foods almost daily or maybe once in a while when we’re either feeling stressed or certain hormones have taken their hold (ladies, you know what I’m talking about, ’cause i know certain times of the month, I find junk food nearly irresistable).

Whatever it might be that you have a natural appetite-admiration for, you may find the following helpful in helping curb your intake of skin destroying junk food, so you can at least help your acne as best you can by the food you put into your body.

1.)  Find all the reasons you can for quitting junk foods, meaning whether it’s to lose weight, feel better or save money, just add them all up and hopefully they will constitute enough benefits to get you to kick them for good.

2.)  Start preparing healthy foods in an enjoyable way.  In other words, look for tasty alternatives that you enjoy eating, but that also rank high in nutrition, like high antioxidant juices, meat substitutes, cheese substitutes like rice and almond cheese, salads prepared with lower fat, dressings made with olive oils instead of cream bases, whole fruits, even some dried fruits like dried mango (excellent for digestive and colon health, tons of fiber), and other little discoveries in the health food store. Trust me, there are some very tasty choices to eat healthy, they’re not all flavorless.

3.)  Start to enjoy exercise more, in other words, find the exercise you actually like.  This always encourages healthier eating for some reason, probably because we begin to feel so good after the exercise, we don’t want to put bad stuff in our body.  Not very scientific I know, but it’s definitely true. 

These components add up to kicking junk food to the curb - at least most of the time, and makes for healthier, clearer pores down the line.  Trust me, I know that it’s not possible to just stop all this cold turkey and never do it again - that’s just not realistic, and let’s face it, also not very fun, but if you can cut them out of the majority of your eating repertoire, you’re golden, and you’re skin will definitely look better as a result.