I know you work hard to make the best lifestyle choices so you can improve your health

destiny and longevity, and there's lots of information out there on how to do just that.

So where do you start?

Well we start with the facts.

Welcome to the Nutrition Facts podcast.

I'm your host, Dr. Michael Greger.

My job is to bring you the latest peer reviewed nutrition and health research and share it

with you here.

Today, it's all about those pesky skin bumps and blemishes that always seem to show up

at the worst possible time.

We start out with a kind of unusual question.

Do sunflower seeds cause acne?

Let's find out.

A recent observational study on acne reported a statistically significant relationship between

acne severity and dietary factors such as chocolate and dairy products.

But this surprised me.

Sunflower seed consumption.

When I think sunflower seeds, I just think good whole food source of nutrition found

to lower cholesterol levels as much as almonds, which is pretty good.

There are however right and wrong ways to eat them.

If you sit down and need a pound of unsheld sunflower seeds, just eat them with the shell

still on, you can end up corked with a fist-sized mass of shredded sunflower seeds shells.

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