痘痘臉？食物和痤瘡的真相

A healthful diet rich in leafy vegetables, beneficial fatty acids, and protein is certainly crucial if you want to create and maintain a gorgeous complexion. After all, a healthy, well-balanced inside often yields a beautiful outside. But if you struggle with chronic acne—either adult breakouts or the time-honored trials of teenage skin—the unsatisfying truth is that despite numerous studies, the jury is technically still out as to whether diet can trigger chronic breakouts. Acne is largely caused by hormones, yet cautionary tales about how certain foods yield breakouts stubbornly persist. Read on to find out which “acne-causing foods” can be dismissed as the stuff of myth and which are true acne culprits.

　　如果你想擁有動人、富含蛋白膠原的完美皮膚，一個有益於健康的飲食——大量的蔬菜和有益脂肪酸是必備的。因為身體內部的健康和營養均衡，會投射到身體表麵。無論你長期和痤瘡進行鬥爭——成年型爆發痤瘡或是從少年時期一直沒有痊愈，雖然有很多研究，但是卻無法表明飲食是否會導致慢性痤瘡爆發。痤瘡主要是由荷爾蒙產生，一些人卻堅持著某些食物會導致痤瘡的爆發。繼續閱讀這篇文章，你將會找到食物和痤瘡的關係—— 哪些是真凶，哪些則是被冤枉的。

　　油膩的、油炸的食品會引起痤瘡嗎？也許不會。  

Cheesy pizza, oily potato chips, french fries, and juicy cheeseburgers won’t give you pimples. This myth began because people once thought that fatty foods must cause acne since they contain oil, and sebaceous oil causes acne. The problem with that logic is that the oil in food has absolutely no relationship to the sebum on your skin, and the only way that pizza could directly cause acne is if you rubbed it on your face.

　　起司披薩、炸薯條、炸土豆片、多汁的芝士漢堡等，不會讓你起粉刺。這個說法的由來是由於人們認為脂肪過多的食物一定會導致痤瘡，因為這些食物中包含油，而這些脂肪油則會導致痤瘡。這樣的思考邏輯會推理出會食物中的油，和皮膚分泌的油脂毫無關係，而吃披薩可以產生痤瘡的唯一方式則是把它往你的臉上塗抹。

　　糖類會產生痤瘡嗎？也許吧。

　　一些研究表明，單一碳水化合物導致血液中胰島素的升高，這會破壞正常荷爾蒙功能的平衡，反過來導致痤瘡的產生。在2011年美國皮膚學會的夏季研討會中，來自美國紐約州立大學州南部醫學中心的艾倫沙利塔博士說道，“我鼓勵痤瘡病人減少碳水化合物的攝入”。食用低碳水化合物的食物，可以控製血糖和胰島素。undefined

　　巧克力會導致痤瘡？也許不會。

Diana McShane, a dermatologist at Duke University, says, “Chocolate has been implicated in the role of acne for decades without any convincing data to support or refute this theory.” Several studies have found no relationship between chocolate and acne, but somehow none have been conclusive enough to officially close the book, so the misconception continues. Still, most medical professionals agree that it’s an old wives’ tale.

　　杜克大學的皮膚科專家戴安娜麥莎妮說，“巧克力一直被卷入到痤瘡的問題中，然而卻沒有強有力的證據去支持或反駁這個理論。”一些研究證明巧克力和痤瘡之間沒有關係，但是卻一直沒有一個決定性的研究去結束這一爭論，錯誤的觀點也持續了下去。然而，大多數醫學專家仍然同意這是一個無稽之談。