Hello and welcome to Nutrition Facts. I'm your host, Dr. Michael Greger. Today we're

going to explore smart nutrition choices based naturally on facts. Have a

history of high blood pressure in your family? How about heart disease? Diabetes?

There are foods we can eat that may not only help prevent many of these

chronic diseases but even stop them in their tracks.

Acne is one of the most common dermatological problems affecting millions

worldwide. There's a good deal of research into the causes of acne and many

studies point to nutrition as a way to curtail and control it. Let's look at how

we can save lives by treating acne with diet. Acne is an epidemic skin disease of

industrialized countries reaching prevalence rates of over 85% of teenagers.

In the US, acne nowadays persists even after adolescence into the third

decade of life nearly half of men and women. But it's considered a disease of

Western civilization meaning in some places like Okinawa. It was rare or even

non-existent. In this regard most common acne is not some physiological

phenomenon of puberty but may represent a visible risk indicator pointing to

aberrant nutrient signaling promoting chronic epidemic diseases of

civilization. This is what they mean. The dairy, junk foods, meat and egg proteins

in Western diets all conspire to raise the activity of the enzyme tour

contributing to acne and obesity. So using diet to suppress tour,

may not only improve acne but may prevent the March to more serious chronic

toward-driven diseases of civilization. So the excessive tour stimulation

induced by the standard American diet may first just manifest as premature

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