Did you pack an alcohol sanitizer in your child’s backpack? Bacteria love to hang-out at schools and methicillin resistant staph aureus (MRSA) is a bacterial bad-boy that you want your children to stay away from. Alcohol sanitizers are a great way to reduce the risk of infection. Be sure you choose one with at least 60% alcohol, and be sure to use it right way. Not sure how? Watch and I’ll show you.
Does Eating Pizza Cause Acne?
Does Pizza Cause Acne?
School is just around the corner and this has been a popular question in my office this week. My mother always said it did, but does eating pizza really cause acne?
Yes, it does.
Eating simple carbohydrates such as white bread, bagels, and pizza can worsen acne. Simple carbohydrates are high-glycemic foods — they cause spikes in your blood sugar because the food is quickly digested then dumped into your blood stream. The resulting high blood sugar causes hormonal changes and inflammation that then triggers acne.
To tame your acne this school-year, change to a low-glycemic diet. Eat complex carbohydrates that are digested slowly avoiding sugar spikes and hormone changes. Here are three tips for an acne-busting diet:
- Cut out high-glycemic foods such as blended coffee drinks, soft drinks, energy drinks, pasta, pastries, baguettes, watermelon, mangoes and potatoes.
- Choose high fiber veggies such as asparagus, artichokes, bell peppers, broccoli, cabbage, carrots, cauliflower, leafy greens, lettuce, spinach, tomatoes and legumes such as black beans, chick peas, pinto beans, lentils and soy beans. Eat low-glycemic fruits such as apples, berries, grapefruit, pears, plums and oranges.
- Avoid processed flours. Instead eat 100% whole grains such as oats, barley, brown rice, millet, quinoa, wild rice, whole wheat pasta and bulgur.
Follow these tips and you be looking (and feeling) much better for your first co-ed dance this year.
Photo: tomek.pl, flickr
Posted in Natural Remedies, Skin Tips Tagged Acne, carbohydrates, diet, high-glycemic diet, inflammation 7 Comments
