Foods that cause acne

Steven Hacker, MD answers: Can certain foods make you break out?

is it a myth that certain foods will cause acne break outs such as chocolate or greasy fastfood?


Steven Hacker, MD
3 months ago

The best way to answer this is to say that it is an individual response. Diet, is a controversial, cause of acne and most dermatologists feel that it is not consistent amongst patients. I generally tell my patients that usually diet does not cause acne but if you, the patient, can definitively correlate outbreaks to certain dietary patterns than perhaps it may play a role. In my experience this is rare.  

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