Diet Recipe to Improve Skin Complexion

This diet emphasizes vegetables high in vitamin A and the B complex vitamins, and is very low in fat. It also works well for people with allergies. Eating sugary food and nutritionally impoverished bread and cereals does not lead directly to oily skin and acne, but the digestion of these foods is such a stress to the body’s enzyme systems, that depletion sets in. The adolescent who is already stressed by his overwhelming hormones has enough to cope with without starving himself on empty foods. Ideally, these nonsense foods should not be available: The soda cracker, for instance, has nothing in it that is good for us; it’s all salt, white flour, fat and sugar. Greasy doughnuts and French fries will give most of us pimples, either on our faces or buttocks.

In general, vitamin A needs to be taken in sufficient amounts to encourage dryness to the skin. Vitamin A can be toxic to some people, but a heavy dose of 75,000 to 100,000 units a day for a month should not cause side effects and would show you that you are on the right track. If your mouth feels dry, however, you should cut way back on the supplement dosage, but keep concentrating on foods rich in Vitamin A. After the first month you should cut back to a more reasonable maintenance dose, to 10,000 to 20,000 units a day. Zinc helps the A and so does vitamin E. Zinc, 30 to 60 mg a day, and 400 to 800 units of the E every day along with the diet is standard.

Snacks: Crudités*, emphasizing cucumbers, carrots, and greens. Also drink lots of vegetable juices.