Colorado Physical Education Professor Discovers Dietary Cure for Acne
Fort Collins, CO (PRWEB)July 30, 2007 -- Most doctors will tell you that diet has nothing to do with acne. They may even pull down one of the major textbooks on dermatology, open it up, and point out in writing where it says that diet doesn't cause acne. So sure has the medical community been about this issue, that until now the last dietary intervention study examining the question was published way back in 1971.
Well it looks like it's time to update some textbooks. This month's issue of the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition has a study titled:
A low-glycemic-load diet improves symptoms in acne vulgaris patients: a randomized controlled trial.
In the study, 47 males age 15 - 25 years old with mild to moderate acne showed significant improvement after 12 weeks on a diet originally proposed by Dr. Cordain, author of The Paleo Diet. "Dr. Neil Mann from the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology had read our 2002 paper in The Archives of Dermatology and was familiar with my ideas of how the typical western diet could cause acne", said Cordain, speaking of one of the authors of the recently published study.
Dr. Cordain's first paper on the link between diet and acne, published in 2002 in The Archives of Dermatology, examined a group of people living on the remote Trobriand Islands off the coast of Papua New Guinea, as well as some Ache hunter gatherers in a remote jungle area of Paraguay.
"We did not find a single case of acne in the entire population", says Dr. Cordain. "And their diets were quite different from anything the typical U.S. citizen would normally eat."
The examination of these dietary differences led Cordain to write a book, The Dietary Cure for Acne. The book explains the basic mechanism behind acne, and the dietary causes and cure. Because skin cells turn over in about 30 days, most people can dramatically reduce or completely eliminate their acne within 4 to 5 weeks, according to Dr. Cordain.
About Loren Cordain
Loren Cordain, Ph.D., is the author of more than 100 peer-reviewed scientific articles and abstracts. His research has appeared in the world's top nutrition journals including the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, the British Journal of Nutrition, and the European Journal of Clinical Nutrition, among others. For an informative interview, Dr. Cordain can be reached at 775-831-8018
About The Dietary Cure for Acne
The Dietary Cure for Acne contains seven chapters, and 174 scientific references. It is written in an easy-to-understand manner to appeal to everyone from the teenager to the dermatologist. The book is currently available as a downloadable ebook from www.DietaryAcneCure.com, and will soon be available in paperback.
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