The Clear Skin Diet by Alan C. Logan, Valori Treloar Summary and Reviews
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Book Reviews of The Clear Skin Diet
Book Review: A letdown.
Summary: 2 Stars
Quite disappointed with the book actually. Was hoping for the doctors to show me the practical and simple way to get rid of acne by modifying daily diet. There's a lot of writes on studies. What I was expecting is the step by step guide to modify daily diet. Instead, I got studies after studies.Book Review: A must read!
Summary: 5 Stars
As a reader of The Brain Diet, I just had to pick up The Skin Diet and it too is a very informatative book. I've been following the recommendations and I can already see a difference in my complexion. I would recommend this book to anyone who suffers from acne.
Book Review: Acne is no longer a problem just for teens: adult acne is on the rise
Summary: 5 Stars
Acne is no longer a problem just for teens: adult acne is on the rise, especially among women - and diet has been linked to its increase. That's why THE CLEAR SKIN DIET is so important for any general-interest collection: it reaches all ages with insights on how to help acne through adjusting eating habits, and considers how dietary stresses influence hormones that cause acne. Dietary requirements for protecting the skin are listed in chapters which cover everything from genetic influences to dietary supplements.Book Review: Apparently well-researched, yet confusing.
Summary: 3 Stars
Basically, this book attempts to confirm most people's suspicions about certain types of food causing acne (ex. milk and cheese). As expected, the book immediately launched into various theories about how milk, dairy, and generally inflammatory foods all can cause acne through hormonal changes, insulin reactions, and sebum modulation. It's all very logically sound in the way it is presented.
The book then goes into foods that prevent acne, mostly centering around those with omega-3 fatty acids. The basis for the argument is omega-3's anti-inflammatory effect.
However, up to this point, it is still information pieced together from various credible sources and made into a sort of "acne theory."
The book then goes into a dietary plan and list of foods for avoiding acne.
To my great dismay and confusion, the book confirmed my worst expectation: this is a general "eat organic, exercise, widen your diet to more exotic food" plan, based on health fads and feelings more than science.
After condemning milk and dairy for half the book, the author then recommends CHEESE as an anti-acne food! He then goes to list all kinds of flavors, with a caveat of "May worsen acne in some people" at the end!
"May worsen acne in some people?" For God's sake, you just spent half the book convincing us that dairy was the Devil's own conspiracy to create acne!
Then, he recommends Olive, Sesame, and Canola oil, all of which are Omega-6 dense, omega-3 scarce oils, which he just spent the last 100 pages trying to convince you were the Devil's second conspiracy!
The rest of the list is made up of common sense fruit and vegetables, with exotic carbohydrates such as hummus and quinoa thrown in for good measure.
Now I agree that avoiding dairy helps avoid acne, and also that eating large amounts of Omega-3 fats provide many health benefits, as did both before I read this book. I'm just disappointed in the consistency of the author.
The recipes at the end are great templates to make exotic meals one might not normally think of, but are just generally healthy foods, not some kind of special anti-acne food concoction. In fact, many of them use milk and omega-6 dense fats!
If one is a complete novice to health issues, I would recommend this book, however most people who have spent some time researching on the internet will not find anything new, and may actually find contradictory information.
Perhaps a version 2 is in order?
Book Review: Book suffers from too much conflicting information
Summary: 3 Stars
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.