How to Prevent Pimples and Reduce Acne Naturally by Eating Right

Step 3 How to choose the best foods

Here's the simplified form: Eat fresh healthy food, and avoid processed and refined garbage.

For a more nuanced approach, you can check out the glycemic index and glycemic load of various foods. The glycemic index is a ranking of carbohydrates on how they effect your blood-sugar levels, i.e. how readily your body converts the components of a certain type of food to glucose. The glycemic load takes into account the type of carbohydrate in addition to how much is in a standard portion of various foods. If you're going to refer to just one measurement, go for glycemic load as it is a better measurement of your body's actual response. The University of Sydney has a glycemic index and load database you can use to check out your favorite foods. Here's a sample of some foods:

Food - Glycemic load
Apple - 5.9
Banana - 10
Broccoli - 0
Brown rice - 31.5
Cola - 17
Pizza (range) - 5-28

Booklets with this information are available, but when you're getting food it's much easier to simply remember to eat fresh fruits, fresh vegetables, lean meats, and seafood and to avoid basing your diet on anything that comes in a cardboard box. I've also heard it said this way: shop only from the edges of the supermarket -- the center isn't good for you.

Comments

[saintneko]

I'm surprised, I figured the techy guy that ran the website about building geek things would have been into computers and electronics. Good for you, though, a healthy body leads to a healthy mind, and a healthy mind can go about instructabling people much better.

[jbrothas]

here's the thing. Glycemic Load is a very poor tool for measuring food. Every single food is different, even within it's own species. and the way it is prepared can change it's number too, the time that you eat it...ect. there are just so many variables. How can a system that is based of a "slice of white bread" really work? I agree that eating good food can assist with breakout control but there has to be a better system

[ewilhelm]

Glycemic load is a poor tool, but people insist on something quantitative that they can wrap their minds around. It should be used broadly to help determine what foods should be eaten in limited quantities -- it doesn't matter that pizza can range from 5-28, you still know that it's a bad thing to base your diet on.