My NONO Food to My Acne Problem

Acne is my worst nightmare since secondary school and Im still struggling with it till NOW! I have spent so much of energy, time and money just to make sure it never comes back or gets worst. My most recent outbreak was a few months back and it was uncontrollable. I tried multiple products as mentioned before and found a few good ones. Of course, people around me suddenly became acne experts and starts telling me what and what not to do/eat.

I was basically told not to eat chocolate, not to drink milk, no spicy food and no fast food. But seriously, all these NONO food are all listed under My Favorite food and I cant just stop consuming all of them without proving their relation! So, I did my own research and testing and came out with my own NONO food.

So what is in my NONO list?

1.     MILK

Why milk? I had been drinking milk since young and was always told that milk is good for our health. Milk helps us become taller, fairer, healthier and it’s true enough but my acne skin says otherwise. I found that since I stop talking milk, my acne improves and I have fewer breakouts. I start to substitute my daily milk consumption with soya milk.

So, why milk?

I actually came across a few researches stated that most of the fresh cow’s milk contains androgenic hormone, the hormone that increases our oil gland activities. So, this leads to increase in oil (sebum) production, oily skin, pores blockage and acne formation. They concluded that milk can aggravate your acne condition but will not cause acne if you do not have acne problem.

2.     Peanut

I stop consuming peanut to be specific. Other nuts such as walnut, almond, hazelnut do not cause me any acne problem. I realise that once I ate peanut, even though just a few, those horrible acne will starts popping out uncontrollably. I can’t find the reasons of why only peanut and luckily not others like almond (my fav). There is no research that I can find to show that peanut is related to acne but personally, peanut is just my enemy in preventing acne.

3.     Deep fried oily food

When I say deep fried oily food, I mean French fries, Fried chicken, and those preserved food that need to be re-fried. Most of the preserved food are actually high in salt and sugar content which is very bad to our skin especially acne. So, if u really is a hotdog or meatball lovers, like me, try to maybe steam or grill it if possible.

That’s all for my NONO list up till now. Spicy food, chocolate and cookies doesn't seem to cause any problem for me. 

Oh! And don’t stop eating fruits and drinking lots of water cus these really helps with acne!!!!!