Everyday I come home to look in a mirror and find my skin is greasy as hell. I sweat alot too. Why? How can I help prevent this? This is embarrassing to be honest with you. Any advice would be great.
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Greasy
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Everyones skin is has varying levels of skin oiliness. I myself often have my skin too dry. People often have extreme greasy/dryness excenuated during mid teens due to the travesty of puberty.There are two things to consider. First of all your diet, which may well be a big part of the problem. Eat greasy foods, have greasy skin. A Healthy diet is good for you in more ways than just your waist line.Secondly you can also help with the right kind of moisteriser. Look speicifcally for a moisteriser for oily skin, though be prepared for it not to work as moisterisers effect everyone differently (everyones skin is different) so you need to be willing to try different ones out til you find one that suits you.But really just fixing your diet would be the easier way (if that is indeed whats causing it, I dont mean to be presumptive)
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I thought about diet tbh (I live on chips...) but i didnt really know. I'll cut down on the chips soon. But as for fruit and stuff goes, I just dont mix with it - I cant stand it tbh.
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Chips will be whats doing it. Listen man, "fruit and vegetables" covers a wide range of foods, I'm sure you'd grow to like some of them if you gave it the time. Think of it like beer, an acquired taste.
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id have 2 disagree that diet has nothing 2 do with it. diet will influeince the condition of ur skin, as well as ur genes.make sure u was ur face when u wake up and b4 u go 2 bed everyday and used a moisuriser specifially for oily skin.as for diet, its been suggested that a diet with GI foods caulses oily skin and pimples, or atleast contributes to it. eating healthy will make a difference to ur skin if its a teenage breakout type thing but, if u just have naturaly oily skin, i wont change much.
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I've heard concentrations of iodine in diet can affect your skin. I haven't looked into it to be able to say for sure though.
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Diet has a great deal to do with it.Quick google search on oily skin... In reply to: causes of oily skin...Heredity Diet Hormone levels Pregnancy Birth control pills Cosmetics you use Humidity and hot weather Diet for Oily SkinTake a diet rich in proteins but restricted in sugar, fluids and salt.Take plenty of leafy green vegetables and fresh fruits.Have your blood brought up to par by the suitable administration of necessary vitamins, iron and similar substances.Even a slight deficiency in vitamin B2 can cause oily skin. Nutritional yeast, wheat germ and organ meats provide both vitamin B5 and vitamin B2. Other good sources of vitamin B2 are whole grains, beans, nuts, and royal jelly. Buckwheat, black beans and whole rice are excellent to supply the body with iron and rejuvenate pate skin.Drink plenty of quality water to keep the skin hydrated and flush out toxins.Reduce the amount of fat in your diet. Avoid pork and fried and highly seasoned foods. Consume no animal fats, or heat-processed vegetable oils. Do not cook with oil. Do not eat any oils that have been subjected to heat, whether in processing or cooking. If a little oil is necessary, such as in salad dressing, use cold-pressed canola or olive oil only.Do not drink soft drinks or alcoholic beverages. Avoid sugar, chocolate, and junk food.http://www.1stholistic.com/Beauty/skin/skin_oily_skin.htm Not to say you shouldnt take other meassures to sort it out aswell.
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Wash your face a couple times a day and then you feel fresh and it takes care of that
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I'm sure Holistic-online has lots of fine information, but if they suggest that greasy food contributes to acne, then they contradict the scientific research that was done on the subject.The greasy food-acne connection is an old wives tale that refuses to die. And just because something is on a Web page doesn't mean that it's correct or true.
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Hasn't it been said that Chocolate causes pimples? I think fries definatly do! I tried not to eat fries for 1 month, i had no acne or things anywere on my body. I ate then i got some. I'm going to stop eating. I also did try not to eat greasy foods! More Vegetables and Fruits. Lots of pineapples and Oraganes, Bananas and carrots, etc.
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I doubt chocolate does really, I doubt you can narrow it down to specific foods, ratehr an inbalance of vitamins seems to cause it from whats I'm reading.
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I've always heard chocolate. I've heard of Soda to do it, like Coke or Pepsi. I'm not sure though.
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> http://skincarerx.org/oily.html
Nothing about greasy food.
> http://www.dhyansanjivani.org/oily_skin.asp
What the hell is this? Nothing about acne and diet anyway.
http://www.acne-resource.org/understanding-acne/oilyskin.html
> They're selling a product.
http://www.ehow.com/how_2194_fight-oily-skin.html
> Nothing about acne.
> http://www.myskincaresite.com/oily_skin_solutions.htm
Selling stuff.
> http://www.yourdictionary.com/business_profile/debt/health/oily-skin-treatments.html
Nothing about acne.
Those are not authoritative sources for what we're discussing. If you can find a CDC or some other research organization's Web site do that, rather than wasting my time with your mindless Google searches of sites that reapeat the same old same old (plus something about iodine that none of them have a reference for).
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It's funny how many times the same things come up in the course of a few months. The grease-acne idea is one of them. So far I haven't seen any real data in support of the idea, but I'd be happy to listen if anyone has any.(I'm waiting for another stretching/no stretching before exercise debate to flare up...but at least there's some interesting research on that topic.)
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Yup. There may be some effect of diet, but I haven't seen any research that supports the idea.A lot of people just believe old wives tales. They're something "everyone knows is true", and folks are resistant to having their dearly-held beliefs challenged.
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I remain neutral on the connection between diet and acne. However, if food can change hormone levels in your body and hormone changes can cause acne, then isn't it possible that eating foods that change hormone levels can lead to a few pimples?
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From blogspot...interesting...
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Although numerous medical studies have not found a strong link between specific foods, like chocolate and pizza, and acne, there might be a relationship between blood levels of the vitamins A and E and the severity of acne.
From coolnurse...also interesting...
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Despite what your friends and mom might say, chocolate, French fries and pizza aren't among the causes of pimples. You just don't get pimples from what you eat, unless you are allergic to something and then you get hives not really zits.
...nutrition [but no details]...
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If true, that would lead one to believe that vitamins A and E have nothing to do with acne, since research has shown that there is no relationship between acne and eating chocolate.
Maybe rubbing chocolate on your face can trigger acne.
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Let us know if you get acne there. Maybe we can approach a University lab with the idea...