How to Prevent Acne from Happening

January 14, 2010 · Filed Under Acne 

How to prevent acne is one of those questions people have been asking themselves since the beginning of time.  The first humans to walk the earth undoubtedly marveled at the sun and stars, wondered why they were here, what greater purpose there was to their lives, and how to prevent acne once and for all.

Today, we still wonder the same things, and its clear we haven’t really made many advances toward answering them.

[Acne problems: How to prevent them]

Learning how to prevent acne has been a process I’ve been mastering since I was a teenager. Over the years I’ve come to realize one sorry and unfortunate fact; acne seems to be impossible to prevent completely.

Even though I can prevent about 90% of the acne from happening, there is still that 10% left and that’s still a pretty big window.

There are a lot of different theories out there on how to prevent acne, and while I suspect that most of them are at least partly right, none of them works completely for everyone.  The theories on how to prevent acne seem to fall in three different categories; diet, stress, and skin care.

Out of all the recommended methods of preventing acne, the least effective method for me would be the one about changing your diet. It seems to have no effect whatsoever.

I could be eating nothing but the finest, healthiest foods, and still get massive outbreaks.  Stress and skin care are much better areas to focus on in acne prevention in my experience.

Skin care seems to get most of the attention when it comes to preventing acne, and there is a good reason behind it. Using an acne facial wash as well as acne body wash, does do wonders in reducing the acne outbreaks that I get.

However, I think stress is underestimated as a cause of acne.  Of all the theories I’ve examined on how to prevent acne, the ones that deal with lowering stress levels are the most effective for me in the long run.

Even though there isn’t a direct connection between staying active and exercising a lot, such measures are proven to lower stress and so indirectly are a great ways to prevent acne.  Exercise seems to be a good way to prevent everything bad in life, doesn’t it?

It’s not just acne that exercise can indirectly affect, but also cancer, heart disease, stroke, diabetes, at the same time, you are boosting your immune system from fighting off many other diseases. All of these diseases also have a stress component triggering them.

Article by: [Mike B.]

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