Well, welcome to Dishing Up Nutrition, brought to you by nutritional weight and wellness.

And thank you all for joining us today. We really appreciate you tuning in. Our topic today is

the food connection to acne. If you're a first time listener, thank you very much for joining us.

But if you've been with us listening for the past 18 years,

boy, we really thank you. Every week we focus our discussion on how food affects a variety

of health conditions. Today, we're going to share some information about how food impacts

teenage acne and also how food

affects adult acne. Rosacea commonly affects middle-aged women kind of with fair skin,

and it often causes these very small pus-filled bumps. Technically, it's not really acne, but it really looks like acne.

And often, women are told, it's just a hormonal problem. But as dietitians and nutritionists,

we believe there is more to that story than just fluctuating hormones. So I want to dig a little bit

deeper and ask some real heavy questions. So what do you think the source of hormone production is?

The answer really may surprise some of you, but as a long-time dietitian, the real source doesn't surprise me at all.

The source of hormone production is, guess what? It's the food we eat. To put it in simple terms, real food, like meat and vegetables and healthy natural

fats, support healthy hormone production. On the other hand, fast foods, packaged foods,

processed foods, those are the ones that interfere with good hormone production.

So what foods do you think are the most important to have good hormone production?

You know, many of our hormones are made from cholesterol.

So for good hormone production, we need those beneficial fats.

Almost every week on dishing up nutrition, we mention beneficial fats.

It's kind of, I feel like, kind of a broken record sometimes, right?

Sometimes we feel we're just fighting that uphill battle because for decades, we, especially as women,

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