Acne Apples Diet
I mentioned green tea earlier as being a healthy part of a clear skin diet, and just as the extreme form of that diet involves drinking tons of green tea, the “apples diet” involves upping your daily apple intake (hehe, if you have a “daily apple intake”) for a time to combat skin problems. There are some pluses and minuses to the diet, but taken in a less extreme form, an apple a day is definitely a good thing.
Apples certainly contain a ton of great nutrients for healthy skin. In fact, they’ve even been referred to as “nature’s multivitamin”. Apples contain almost every kind of essential vitamin, but especially of note are generous amounts of calcium, vitamin A, and vitamin C (with bioflavonoids, which makes for a great combination). Since most of the nutrients in apples are easily absorbed into your body, they make for one of the healthiest snacks around. It’s easy to recommend eating an apple every day.
Can more apples help your skin? The answer is yes. However, to get the dramatic effects that some acne regimens describe, you would have to eat upwards of 10-12 apples per day (and not much else for a time), and this I do not recommend. While it may work for some, a healthy diet still consists of more than just apples, and that much fruit may send your bowels into an uncomfortable state, if you know what I mean. While the vitamins and minerals present are more easily absorbed from an apple than from a multivitamin, the multivitamin is still easier to take, and will not require a extreme diet change. The main reason the apple diet works for some is most likely due to the higher vitamin A intake, and in this respect it may actually help, as it’s hard to overdose on vitamin A from apples, but not very hard to do so from supplements (unlike vitamin B5, there are some real risks with high-doses of vitamin A). The result is that apples are generally a safer way of increasing your vitamin A, and ensure that you get important supporting vitamins at the same time.
