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Product Description
While acne has long been a problem for adolescents, in recent decades--the last fifty years specifically--acne has been on the rise among adults as well, particularly among women. Many scientists have traced this upsurge to changes in the dietary habits of North Americans. The Clear Skin Diet is designed to help those who suffer from acne to understand what it is, why they have it, what it has to do with their eating habits, and what they can do to prevent it or lessen its impact. The Clear Skin Diet introduces the acne diet and lifestyle. Dietary requirements for protecting the skin are also listed--along with suggested food supplements when they cannot be easily met--and summarized, as well as mind-body medical interventions that can influence acne hormones and lessen their impact. Most interesting are the 50 acne-preventive recipes that are provided, along with information on how one can locate the ingredients that are no readily available in most grocery stores.
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Customer Reviews:
• Highly Recommended - Dermatologist's Perspective
21 December, 2009
Every acne patient should read this book. I find it very unfortunate that the American Academy of Dermatology has continued to perpetuate the myth that diet is not linked to acne. As someone who has made the choice to lead a healthier lifestyle, I was essentially following this diet for the past several months before I even read the book. I could see wonderful changes in my skin in addition to other changes (lost 30 lbs, was no longer tired and achy). I no longer had monthly flare-ups of the female adult acne, no longer had a drab complexion. People told me my skin seemed to "glow" and that my skin looked like an ad for an Oil of Olay commercial. I was no longer dependent on the latest and greatest topical treatment from the big pharma.
This textbook explains very clearly, and with excellent scientific background, exactly how diet and lifestyle influence the inflammatory and hormonal systems in our bodies to aggravate acne. The Western diet and lifestyle that predisposes to acne is also linked to obesity, diabetes and hormone dependent cancers down the road. For the past year, I have been recommending that acne patients avoid sugar and dairy. More recently, I have been recommending this book to all patients and/or their parents who see me about their acne. The endless antibiotics prescribed for acne lead to unfavorable to changes to bacterial flora, increase antibiotic resistant organisms, and may lead to other changes. I have seen firsthand how acne has now become a problem in much earlier and later ages than before. I see children whose acne starts at 9, adults who have acne well into their 50's. Many of these changes are not a result of genetics but of diet and lifestyle, particularly diets that are high in sugar, dairy, and unhealthy fats.
The diet in this book is not restrictive. The recommendations in this text are also appropriate for anyone trying to lose weight or improve their cardiac risk factors. I strongly believe it is only a matter of time before there is more proof that other inflammatory conditions such as psoriasis would benefit from similar dietary and lifestyle modifications. The only fault I can find with this book is that it is a little textbook-like. The authors explain every study that supports their points - very good for those who are skeptical, but it can make it a bit of a slow read.
I do realize that many of my patients will not pick up this book - they come to me to get a pill, a quick fix, and move on with their lives. I now take the time to explain the dietary and lifestyle contributors to acne and recommend this book, even though it really slows down the clinic. If even a small proportion of patients will make positive lifestyle changes as a result of my recommendations and this book, I will be quite pleased! Recently one of my patients left me a message - her skin improved within weeks of following the dietary changes. I was absolutely delighted to hear it.
- Amazon Customer Review
• Very Good
31 October, 2009
This is a well-written, organized, and thoroughly researched book. The authors make clear distinctions between good and bad foods to eat, with a clear presentation style and discussion of the pertinent scientific studies. It is not new information, but an intelligent and comprehensive big picture analysis that made this book really worth reading. The value added here is in their connection of the many studies that have occurred through the last several decades. They're also clear to emphasize the very best nutrients and separate them from the group.
It is noteworthy that after dealing unsuccessfully with this condition for years, from one dermatologist to another, one prescription to the next, the feeling of despair is likely to set in. The correlation of stress and acne is covered in Clear Skin Diet with the same aplomb as nutrition, although some recommendations can be less convincing. It may be that stress, diet, and skin health are a Bermuda Triangle of cause-and-effect - we can't clearly locate what is causing what. It follows that the totality of the science presented in Clear Skin Diet cannot help with one's despair: Do you really want to live a completely different life in the name of clear skin? Can you afford to change your work, diet, and leisure preferences? It is one matter to eliminate fast food and subscribe to a course of vitamins, but another to re-organize one's life around the prevention of acne via stress management; this book manages to fit in some suggestions like air purification, yoga, and spending one hour per night preparing dinner. But don't the best complected among us also want to reduce stress? Don't we all basically spend our lives trying to be happy and balanced? So for me, there is quite a bridge unbuilt from stress reduction to acne cure. Stress is a part of life, and a wayside of accomplishment. The goal of clear skin is not really an end to a happy life; one wants clear skin as a means to confidence, an aid in achievement, and part and parcel of gaining respect.
So that is one potential philosophical difference between the authors and the MD's of dermatology. I do have one minor direct criticism that there is no disclosure of whether any compensation was received for the product endorsements in the book. I think it's appropriate to weigh in on commercially available products, and they've made recommendations so varied as to remove most doubt about the validity thereof. Yet the money spent to buy a book should always earn full confidence about the objectivity of the authors.
Alas, I heartily recommend this book to anyone interested in this topic or afflicted by this disease. I have even gained a slight appreciation for acne as an early warning of more serious potential problems caused by inflammation and poor nutrition.
- Amazon Customer Review
• Rich In History & Science - Worth A Look!
02 November, 2009
Most dermatologists will blow off any suggestion that diet and acne are connected. Authors Logan (naturopathic physician) & Treloar (dermatologist) methodically dismantle the bogus "research" behind this dismissal of a nutrition connection. If you think dermatologists have a strong background in nutrition education think again - some of the stats in MD nutrition training listed in this book are alarming.
Overall the book draws on lots of historical diet-acne work and links them with new studies from Australia and Harvard. I also thought the gut-skin chapter was very interesting. This is way more than a "diet" book. The recommendations are not really rocket science but I like to know reasons why I should expect changes, and the authors explain the pathways in detail.
- Amazon Customer Review
• "pizza Face" Is More Than Just A Pejorative
29 December, 2009
Since I discovered this book in my mid-20's, my biggest complaint is that Logan and Treloar didn't publish a decade earlier. The money they could have saved me on dermatologist visits and Proactiv Solution Renewing Cleanser! Not to mention the social anxiety and lingering scars of breakouts I could have prevented.
Tell me if my routine sounds familiar to you: I would feel a breakout coming on, get out an arsenal of irritating topical products, dry my skin out so much I couldn't help but touch it, shellac heavy concealers and moisturizers on, stress that I wasn't fooling anyone with the cover up, and hunker down with my favorite sugary comfort food to wait it out. Every well-intentioned step of the way, I was compounding the problem. This book will give you more constructive ways to channel that anxiety.
The authors are serious when they describe this as a "lifestyle plan." They say it may take up to 90 days to see results and form healthy eating habits. Don't let this discourage you. Some of the studies they cite were able to show statistically significant results in under 6 weeks. I began incorporating their plan in the middle of an epic breakout and found the advice halved my healing time.
The results of the lifestyle are not superficial. The steps you take to clear your skin will change your hormones, gut flora, and brain chemistry. Side effects of the program may include weight loss, lowered risk for diabetes and heart conditions, higher energy, more stable moods, relief of some symptoms of depression/anxiety, thicker hair on your head and ladies, finer hair on waxing zones. Of course, none of this is guaranteed, so you'll have to see how the results manifest for yourself. :)
This book is structured to be a teaser. The first 6 chapters are a cross between Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values (P.S.) and Don't Go to the Cosmetics Counter Without Me (Don't Go to the Cosmetic Counter Without Me). The authors are offering you the biological mechanics which confirm your suspicions about the contribution of excessive dairy, sugar, etc. on your skin. This can be a long slog, but equips you to make educated decisions about which portions of the diet are easy to incorporate into your lifestyle and which you can skip for now. Chapter 7 read like The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals, examining the health ramifications of a western diet on the cultures that adopt it. Chapter 8 is what you came for, the diet itself. If you've read the preceding chapters, or any of Dr. Weil's books like 8 Weeks to Optimum Health: A Proven Program for Taking Full Advantage of Your Body's Natural Healing Power, the takeaway points will look like familiar common sense: "Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants" (Pollan). However, it's great to have it pulled together coherently with the lit review. Finally, Chapter 9 gets Julia Child on you and moves into suggesting some simple recipes.
I bought this book on Kindle Wireless Reading Device (6" Display, Global Wireless, Latest Generation) for immediate gratification and so I could read it covertly in public places. Unfortunately, the Kindle is such a curiosity to by-passers, it's blowing my cover! If you have any suggestions for an "intellectual beard" I can download for my Kindle bookshelf, let me know! If you're waiting for a physical copy to ship, definitely go to the author's website ([...])and download the diary to get you on your way to establishing a baseline.
- Amazon Customer Review
• A Good Starting Point To Change Your Way Of Thinking
05 January, 2010
The book was extremely detailed and provided research to back their claims - occassionally some of the descriptions of the research findings were a bit too detailed for me to keep my attention but I definitely appreciated the writers providing the research and also the obvious lack of research into the relationship between diet & acne which also has led to lack of education in dermatologists regarding diet (in all my years of acne and multiple doctors I have not had a single one ask me about my diet - it was been through the internet and this book I discovered this finding). I was making changes very early on in the book - before hitting the chapter telling you what to do and I definitely saw improvement. I didn't make any dramatic changes but I definitely agree with 2 main points they make - the affect of dairy increasing acne and the use of high omega 3 fatty acid foods to help decrease acne. I don't stay on a "strict" diet because of this book but it has made me more aware of the foods I put into my body so that I make better choices - and I have clear skin right now to prove it :)
- Amazon Customer Review
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