By Elizabeth Barker
If you’re still struggling with blemishes way past your teen years, take a look at your eating routine. A report recently published in the Journal of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics indicates that overdoing it on foods high on the glycemic index could leave you more acne-prone, and that shaking up your diet might help banish breakouts.
Looking at a host of studies from the past four decades, the report’s authors found “convincing evidence” that diets with a high glycemic load may aggravate acne. A measure of how carbohydrate-containing foods affect blood sugar and insulin, the glycemic index assigns higher numbers to foods that trigger blood-sugar spikes. For instance, high glycemic foods include starchy items like white bread and white rice, while low glycemic foods include fiber-rich oatmeal, barley, lentils and similar.
Previous studies show taking on a low glycemic diet may help tame acne by curbing chronic inflammation (a common problem closely linked to acne flare-ups).
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