Authors: Alan C. Logan, Valori Treloar
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While acne has long been a problem for adolescents, in recent decades--the last fifty years specifically--acne has been on the rise among adults as well, particularly among women. Many scientists have traced this upsurge to changes in the dietary habits of North Americans. The Clear Skin Diet is designed to help those who suffer from acne to understand what it is, why they have it, what it has to do with their eating habits, and what they can do to prevent it or lessen its impact.

The Clear Skin Diet introduces the acne diet and lifestyle. Dietary requirements for protecting the skin are also listed--along with suggested food supplements when they cannot be easily met--and summarized, as well as mind-body medical interventions that can influence acne hormones and lessen their impact.

Most interesting are the 50 acne-preventive recipes that are provided, along with information on how one can locate the ingredients that are no readily available in most grocery stores.

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Rich in History & Science - Worth a Look! November 2, 2009
derek gomes
1 out of 1 found this review helpful

Most dermatologists will blow off any suggestion that diet and acne are connected. Authors Logan (naturopathic physician) & Treloar (dermatologist) methodically dismantle the bogus "research" behind this dismissal of a nutrition connection. If you think dermatologists have a strong background in nutrition education think again - some of the stats in MD nutrition training listed in this book are alarming.
Overall the book draws on lots of historical diet-acne work and links them with new studies from Australia and Harvard. I also thought the gut-skin chapter was very interesting. This is way more than a "diet" book. The recommendations are not really rocket science but I like to know reasons why I should expect changes, and the authors explain the pathways in detail.

4 out of 5 stars

Very good October 31, 2009
Matt (Raleigh)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful

This is a well-written, organized, and thoroughly researched book. The authors make clear distinctions between good and bad foods to eat, with a clear presentation style and discussion of the pertinent scientific studies. It is not new information, but an intelligent and comprehensive big picture analysis that made this book really worth reading. The value added here is in their connection of the many studies that have occurred through the last several decades. They're also clear to emphasize the very best nutrients and separate them from the group.

It is noteworthy that after dealing unsuccessfully with this condition for years, from one dermatologist to another, one prescription to the next, the feeling of despair is likely to set in. The correlation of stress and acne is covered in Clear Skin Diet with the same aplomb as nutrition, although some recommendations can be less convincing. It may be that stress, diet, and skin health are a Bermuda Triangle of cause-and-effect - we can't clearly locate what is causing what. It follows that the totality of the science presented in Clear Skin Diet cannot help with one's despair: Do you really want to live a completely different life in the name of clear skin? Can you afford to change your work, diet, and leisure preferences? It is one matter to eliminate fast food and subscribe to a course of vitamins, but another to re-organize one's life around the prevention of acne via stress management; this book manages to fit in some suggestions like air purification, yoga, and spending one hour per night preparing dinner. But don't the best complected among us also want to reduce stress? Don't we all basically spend our lives trying to be happy and balanced? So for me, there is quite a bridge unbuilt from stress reduction to acne cure. Stress is a part of life, and a wayside of accomplishment. The goal of clear skin is not really an end to a happy life; one wants clear skin as a means to confidence, an aid in achievement, and part and parcel of gaining respect.

So that is one potential philosophical difference between the authors and the MD's of dermatology. I do have one minor direct criticism that there is no disclosure of whether any compensation was received for the product endorsements in the book. I think it's appropriate to weigh in on commercially available products, and they've made recommendations so varied as to remove most doubt about the validity thereof. Yet the money spent to buy a book should always earn full confidence about the objectivity of the authors.

Alas, I heartily recommend this book to anyone interested in this topic or afflicted by this disease. I have even gained a slight appreciation for acne as an early warning of more serious potential problems caused by inflammation and poor nutrition.

5 out of 5 stars

Extraordinary book!! October 14, 2009
Laureen M. Burke
2 out of 2 found this review helpful

Drs Logan and Treloar do a wonderful job covering research that will never be discussed in a dermatologist's office. After reading this book I have a appreciation for how the skin can be influenced by a diet and stress. Although it was deep in science, the authors did a fine job in making it simple enough to understand.

3 out of 5 stars

Book suffers from too much conflicting information October 10, 2009
nana (USA)
1 out of 3 found this review helpful

I bought this book when it first came out. My issue with this book is that it is so jam-packed with studies that provide such confusing information. At different points in the book, every kind of food and calorie type is butchered. By the end, I am scared of every kind of food. He then gives dietary recommendations that includes nuts, dairy and breads after he shows studies that these cause acne. The dietary recommendations ends up being the exact same as every other diet book that doesn't work and extremely low in calories. He criticizes dairy with a study than includes it in his recipes??? To me, the problem is that this author didn't do any studies himself besides drinking tomato juice and is merely picking and choosing studies to include to support his argument. He provides a study at one point saying 1 hour of exercise a day lowered IGF-1 levels. Then there is another study saying excessive exercise actually worsens acne. Makes no sense to me! You can find studies to support any argument.. and there are very convenient plugs for a product called "Greens+" throughout the book.. the same company released a supplement alongside this book....

This book also seems to get ideas heavily from The Dietary Cure for Acne from Lauren Cordain and The Clear Skin Prescription from Dr Perricone that were released several years earlier. Those really are the only books you'll need. Unfortunately I read them after this one so I could have saved money.

5 out of 5 stars

Fascinating, well-researched book... September 11, 2009
Salvador Minuchin (IN)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful

This book recommends adding anti-inflammatory foods such as Ginger and Turmeric. But what I personally found so fascinating was a look at the embarrassingly flawed research design of the two "acne-diet" studies to which so many dermatologists appeal.

One study was conducted by a "scientist" with a well-documented bias against any diet connection, which involved only 26 research subjects. He did not bother to use a control group, did not bother to find their baseline diet, and divided this paltry group of 26 into 4 subgroups--dairy, sugar, chocolate, peanuts. Without giving the scientific community the number of subjects in each group, he concluded after only one month that there was no difference in acne. Granted, this was in 1970, when we didn't know as much about nutrition, but how can you forgive a study design with so many holes?

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