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Acne in adolescence: A role for nutrition?
Author(s) -
SMITH Robyn,
MANN Neil
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
nutrition and dietetics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.479
H-Index - 31
eISSN - 1747-0080
pISSN - 1446-6368
DOI - 10.1111/j.1747-0080.2007.00211.x
Subject(s) - acne , medicine , dermatology , affect (linguistics) , etiology , aggravating factor , acne treatment , psychology , communication
Acne prevalence varies substantially between populations and is low in non-Westernised societies consuming traditional diets. A unifying feature of traditional diets is low glycaemic load. High-glycaemic-load diets have recently been implicated in acne aetiology due to their ability to affect insulin demand, androgen bioavailability and insulin-like growth factor-I activity. The beneficial results of a low-glycaemic-load diet on acne observed in a recent trial require confirmation in larger studies.