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<p>A researcher might rewrite the books on acne with his findings that candy, carbohydrates and cola play an important role in the skin disease after all.</p> <p>Professor Loren Cordain of Colorado State University studied thousands of hunters, gatherers and farmers in Paraguay and Papua New Guinea whose diets contained no bread, cake, sugar, soft drinks, potato chips or pizza, and he didn't find a single case of acne.</p>

Biologists blame bread for teenage acne eruptions New research suggests refined breads and cereals are more likely to cause acne than chocolate or fatty foods. The study by biologists at Colorado State University holds highly refined starches responsible because they are easily digested. It says eating them triggers the body to produce insulin and insulin-like growth factor (IFG-1) in higher quantities. This can lead to a surplus of male hormones, which encourages the skin to produce sebum, the "greasy goop" that acne-promoting bacteria love. IGF-1 also encourages skin cells called keratinocytes to proliferate, which are another acne hallmark. According to...