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Article: The acne diet: candy and pizza don't cause breakouts--or do they?(Beauty Flash)
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- November 1, 2007
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For the past 30 years, doctors, racialists and high school health-ed teachers alike have assured us up and down that, contrary to what our grandmothers may have believed, junk food does not cause acne. Snickers bars, soda and ice cream, they told us, might be unhealthy--but at least they didn't affect our complexions. According to the American Academy of Dermatology, the belief that chocolate caused zits was an old wives' tale, somewhere along the lines of "shaving your legs makes the hair grow back faster."
As it turns out, those old wives may have been right all along. This past July, a study published in the American Journal of ...