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If you want a natural acne treatment, you may be in luck. Doctors believe that a low carb diet could provide an excellent way to deal with skin blemishes.
Now, before you start rummaging through the cupboards and throwing bread in the garbage, note that we're talking about a LOW carb diet, not a NO carb diet. Most doctors and nutritionists agree that your body needs carbs -- it's just that we eat too many, and we eat the wrong kind.
So starting a low carb diet could be better than all of the acne treatments you've tried. Why is that, and how do you go about it?
The best time to stop acne is before you get it. If you're like many people, though, once your skin clears up, you might slack off on your skin regiment. It's completely natural: people tend to forget about problems that don't immediately present themselves (it's why we're such diligent flossers when we get back from the dentist or have a toothache, but not so much the rest of the time.)
So it's going to happen. You'll mostly conquer your acne problems, and then one day, you notice a single pimple. Ugh, you think -- and then one becomes two, and two becomes four, and soon you've got breakouts all over your face and body.
The best tactic would be to stop acne before it started. But if you notice a pimple, it's time to take immediate action to prevent a full scale breakout.