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Comment author: Brillyant 18 October 2014 04:29:50PM 0 points [-]

I used to think acne was unrelated to diet (other than perhaps via direct facial contact with grease).

Aren't many people prone to acne regardless of diet?

When law enforcement first started being equipped with tasers, I thought this was a good thing, because they would use nonlethal force on occasions where they would previously have used firearms. It turned out that police continued to use lethal force as before, and instead used tasers in situations where they might actually have talked people down in the past.

Stats? Source?

Comment author: hyporational 18 October 2014 06:29:06PM *  3 points [-]

Aren't many people prone to acne regardless of diet?

About half of people in their 20s and 30s have acne. Acne is caused by a bacterium that breaks down lipids in the skin. I've only seen hyperglycemic diet implicated in making acne worse, but no diet will cure acne. Note that dermatology has a stricter definition for acne than people usually care about for cosmetic reasons.

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