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Fiber Foods Help Prevent Acne
As a matter of fact, wastes and toxic built up in your system is one of the main reasons why you have acne or why your skin breaks out.
Your body has 4 channels of elimination...your bowels, kidneys, lungs, and your skin. Your bowels and kidneys are the primary channels that your body expels wastes and toxics through.
The only time that your body expels wastes through your lungs and skin is when your bowels and kidneys are overloaded with wastes and toxics or when your bowels becomes sluggish.
When your body takes some of the waste and expel it through your lungs and skin (your secondary channels of elimination), it results in acne breakout.
However, you can prevent this happening by increasing “fiber” intake. Fiber will absorb these toxins and product waste, and help your bowels sweep them out of your system fast. So by taking enough fiber foods, you’ll be able to speed up your bowels transit time thus, preventing your body from expelling toxics through your skin and preventing acne.
Now what you should do is to start eating the type of foods that contains the highest amount of fiber.
What types of food contains the highest amount of fiber? Fruits and non-starchy vegetables.
Fruits such as apples, bananas, oranges, raspberries, and strawberries. And vegetables such as broccoli, Brussels sprouts, spinach, parsnips, and potatoes. These contains the highest amount of fiber.
You should only consume enough so that your bowel transit time is between 12 to 18 hours. In other words, try not to consume too much fiber in day otherwise your transit time may be too fast causing nutrients to pass through your system without being absorbed. So if your transit time is under 12 hours, you may want to reduce the amount of fibers consume each day.
However, if your transit time is more than 24 hours then you really need to consume more fiber intake or else your body will start expelling these wastes and toxins through your skin (resulting in acne breakout).
How much grams of fiber is enough daily? You should really test it out for yourself and find out the proper need. It is better to start out with 30 grams of fiber a day and go on from this amount.
And how much grams of fiber does each fruit and vegetable contain? The fruits listed above is around 3 grams each and the vegetables are about 2 grams each. However, it is recommended that you consume more vegetables than fruits because fruits are high in natural sugar.
However, consuming more fiber alone may not stop acne completely for some people, it can only help in preventing acne. So this may be one portion in fighting acne. |
