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Aleehdvera

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Can diet really affect acne?

I love chocolate but I notice how my acne multiplies. Sometimes we don't notice how food we ate affects our skin. Now I drink more lemon water which they say helps clearing skin. Can you reco some foods that helped you better your skin? And which food to avoid. Thank you in advance!
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Yourskintellectual

Oily/Resilient

It highly varies from person to person but generally sugar, dairy and fatty foods are common triggers. Unless like with chocolate you can clearly tell it's a trigger for you, you don't have to avoid things - just make sure to eat a varied nutritious diet and drink lots of water πŸ‘ŒπŸ‘Œ
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Aleehdvera

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omgg this helps me thank you ❀️
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micho

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Scientifically, no. There's a video that LabMuffin did a month ago about this but there is no hard definitive proof that diet affects your skin. But on the other hand I feel like what you put in your body will probably affect your skin, somehow. It's a very nuanced topic and I don't feel like you should cut things out of your diet just for the sake of better looking skin. But maybe just ingest "healthier" foods if you believe diet affects your skin. Link to the video: https://youtu.be/iVUL0bk9TiU
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Aleehdvera

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good point I will look into this vid πŸ’• thanks a lot
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Betweendots

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It's quite a complicated topic, but some people actually say their diet and food intolerance were related to diet. I had lots of acne and changing food due to coeliac disease diagnosis helped me clean my skin a bit - I stopped eating processed food. But there's also other problem - hormones, I recommend checking how your skin and diet look like before period, because many women deal with chocolate and chips cravings before period and their skin also gets worse due to hormones, so it's not strictly diet problem. Green tea is great for skin, I took pansy tea and supplements before (supplements didn't really help me), but green tea - I love it.
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Betweendots

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Yes, it's weird in general - when I use products with oats I got allergic reactions but wheat in cosmetics? Nope, only if it's a lipstick. My friend reacts to both wheat and gluten in skincare. Human body is still a mystery, we don't know how it fully works
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Girly

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My list about food that are making me break out is long believe me maybe its just me,i enjoy eating them but the next day my acne are there and big and i stopped eating a lot of the junk food and the food that really iritated and triggered my acne and it stopped breaking me out!!πŸ˜‡
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Aleehdvera

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thanks for sharing your experienceπŸ’˜
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