Posted on April 4, 2008 in Latest News
A study published in the Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology in February 2005 sparked the controversy of diet and acne once again. Researchers from the Harvard School of Public Health investigated data from more than 47,000 women who completed questionnaires on high school diet in 1998 and physician-diagnosed severe teenage acne in 1989.
Results showed that those who drank three or more cups of milk a day were 22 percent more likely to experience severe acne compared with those who drank less than one serving a week. Other milk products such as cottage cheese, cream cheese and instant breakfast were also associated with acne.
Why is this so?
Because drinking milk and consuming dairy products from pregnant cows exposes us to the hormones produced by the cows’ pregnancy, hormones that we were not designed to consume during our teenage and adult years. And since teenage is the peak time of hormonal changes, milk consumption might lead to acne.
Despite this information, the link between milk and acne is still controversial. Reducing or stopping milk intake may be an important part of an acne regimen. A popular acne treatment program does recommend a dairy-free diet (Perricone, 2003). It is essential that teenagers maintain adequate bone mineral health.
This is a complicated subject, but it is clear that exercise is key to the maintenance of healthy bones during the teenage years. If milk products are eliminated from your diet, you should take care to substitute other calcium-rich foods in particular.
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April 5th, 2008 at 2:05 am
MUCH more important than calcium supplements is the need for adequate Vitamin D3.
Cows, unlike humans, stand out in the sun without clothes and so have a fine supply of vitamin D.
Yet cows drink no milk, chew no bones, take no calcium supplements, have HUGE bones, have a baby every year with its own bones, and deliver milk containing calcium every day!
Efficient, hmmm? (Yes, I know factory-farmed cows do get some supplements to make up for the extra stresses of forced milking)
The only real and solid reason for calcium supplements and dairy intake is to make money for those who sell these purported necessities. Millions live without them (the calcium, the dairy, AND the salespeople).
Sure, there are vitamin D3 salespeople as well, but how much can you profiteer from aproduct that costs about $15 a year!
One other point - sometime try designing a calcium-poor diet. Not an easy chore.