Laying Down the Hammer

Loren Cordain continues to amaze me.  His latest effort is to expose the dietary cause of acne.  For decades, the dermatology community has stated that acne has no connection to diet.  Oh really?  I think most parents will tell you that if you feed a kid lots of chocolate and soda pop, he or she will break out.  I figured this one out when I was 16; how this has eluded dermatologists is beyond me.

In his latest paper, Cordain lays down the hammer, asking why there has not been any clinical studies on diet and acne since 1971.  1971!!!  What have these guys been studying for the last 30 years??  Cordain has also taken some trips around the globe, finding populations that show no signs of acne - and of course, these populations aren't consuming the high levels of sugar and carbohydrate that are present in the American diet.

For a teenager, I bet struggling with acne can be a real psychological burden.  Knowing that the situtation could easily be corrected by diet, but that dermatologists refuse to acknowledge or publicize this, is a very sad situation indeed.