What is the role of feeding in the acne?

At a time when fruits and vegetables are in honour because they promise longevity and good health, a research team had the idea of studying the influence of the consumption of this food on this affection of the skin which touches predominantly the teenagers but also the young adults.

About fifty old persons from 10 to 54 years old were recruited. The half of them suffered from acne, other one was unharmed there.

All filled a questionnaire concerning their feeding: number of meals a day, nibbling between meals, types of consummate food, quantities, drinks, etc.

The official report is the following: the subjects which introduce the acne are those who eat least fruits and vegetables (1,9 unit against 3,4).

They point out besides that all subjects are well underneath official recommendation recommending to eat 5 fruits and vegetables a day. The average for the totality of the participants  is 2,68 a day, with 5 persons who have never used (either fruits or vegetables) and 13 who have never eaten fruits.

To come back to comparison between persons there suffering from acne and unharmed subjects, the researchers disclosed another difference.

Balanced feeding, rich in fruits and vegetables

In conclusion the persons who introduce the acne have a feeding more unbalanced than others. The fact that fruits and vegetables are strongly involved in relation feeding and acne suggests that the mechanism passes by the inflammation. Indeed, the acne is an inflammatory local phenomenon. At the same time, fruits and vegetables are known to diminish inflammatory reactions.

In practice, it is recommended to the young people to adopt a balanced feeding. It can be about a very valid argument to encourage the teenagers to eat more fruits and vegetables, and to limit nibblings …

Facing the epidemic of obesity which threatens Frenchmen seriously, the industrialists follow the governmental campaign and work at lightening their products in sugar, in fat and in salt. A job which is not made in one day… Meeting with Nestlé and Mark Landmark.

As part of the National Programme Nutrition Health 2 (PNNS2), the French government asked the agroindustrial industrialists to see again the nutritional composition of their products while conjugating health and pleasure of eating. Some industrialists had already worked on the improvement of their products. ‘A firm as Nestlé whose nutritional requirement is in the middle of development for a long time gave, from 2000, a touch on the accelerator on the reductions of sugar, of fats and of salt and on increase in fruits and vegetables’, explains Brigitte Laurent-Langevin, head of the nutrition Nestlé France. To act on the prevention of obesity, Nestlé works on all products although the type of optimisation is not the same.

Diminish gently

For nine years, the content of salt in soups Maggi was diminished by 25 % on all the products between 2000 and 2008. It is necessary to revise on recipes, to play on spices. It is a true formulation. A hard job because if it is easier to intervene when a product is new, to change a habitual product is more delicate. The consumer does not like to change. ‘We reduced the salt progressively because it is necessary to make sure that the product continues being accepted by the consumer’, specifies Brigitte Laurent-Langevin. The security aspect also is to take into account notably for meat products. To diminish the salt too much in bacon cubes (-25 %) or ham (-10 %) should not prevent from continuing assuring the health quality of products without conservatives and additional additives since fall also concerns them, the will of the consumers being to go towards more of naturality.

Initiative Landmark

‘In 2008, Mark Landmark launched into a large programme: improve the nutritional quality of its 3 500 products, diminish the content of sugar, in fat and salt. A job envisaged over three years which asks for validation inside, for a dialogue with the suppliers, of sensory tests. It is not a question of replacing the sugar with the fat and the product must remain allowable and give pleasure to the consumer. Considering the serious problems of infantile obesity, priority was put on the products which are intended for them’, explains Josée Coutier, nutritionist. Fall concerns brioches therefore (Bite of Day), cereals (-15 %), dairy products and notably yoghurts to drink Delisse (-10 %), drinks were sweetened in the tea, very appreciated by the children. ‘They are particularly to watch because they do not answer the same signals of satiety as a food. With them, it is possible to ingest a big number of calories. ‘Their content of sugar was reduced from 15 to 20 %. Stewed fruits should be, they too seen again in fall side sweetens. Some products made the object of a reduction of sugar, but the packing still does not point it out for the very good reason that, in an environmental worry, it is necessary to sell the supplies of packing. Many sweet products should be reviewed ongoing on 2009, but cooked dishes are also part of the list of priorities.

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3 protective factors

• • Physical activity.
  • The consumption of fruits and vegetables.
  • Feeding (advantageous for the mother).

Practical recommendations

Limit sedentary activities (television, computer).

To practice at the very least 5 days a week at least 30 minutes of physical activity of moderate intensity (quick walk) or 3 days a week 20 minutes of activity of high intensity (portrays jogging).

For the children and the teenagers: at least 60 minutes a day of moderate or high physical activity, in form of games, of activities of daily life or of sports.

Use every day at least 5 fruits and various vegetables

Use every day of the cereal food and of the high-fibre pulses.

5 risk factors

The alcohol.

Overweight or obesity.

The excessive consumption of red meat and of meat products.

The salt food.

Practical recommendations

Never of alcohol at the children and the pregnant women.

The risk of cancer increases with the ingested quantity of alcohol and concerns all types of alcoholic beverages.

Risk begins from a glass of alcohol a day.

Risk is minimal for a popular indication bodily supported between 18,5 and 25 kg / m2.

Overweight and obesity augment the risk of cancer from 8 % to 55 % according to locations for an increase of 5 kg / m2.

Limit in quantity and in frequency the red meat, the meat products, the salt and the salt food (cheeses, meat products).

Nibblings, absence of breakfast, excess of sweet drinks, snack bar are so much bad food habits which contribute to the happening of the overweight. Here are some food landmarks to cover at most just the nutritional needs of your children and teenagers.

The nutritional needs of the children and of the teenagers

Nutritional contributions have to cover needs in energy and assure growth at the same time.

Needs in energy of the children and teenagers from 4 to 17 years old vary of 1750 in 2500 calories, but these stocks are to adjust according to age, to stature and to physical activity of every child.

Daily contributions have to include proteins (11 - 15 % complete energy contributions), carbohydrates (50 - 55 %) and lipids (30 - 35 %), as well as vitamins and minerals.

This sharing out in these different nutritional categories not being willy-nilly easy to apply, here is some landmarks to help you there.

6 food landmarks

1) A lacteal product in every meal

Equivalences: œ of litre of milk = 2 yoghurts = 80g of Camembert = 60 g of county.

At the girls and girls, sufficient contributions in calcium are very important to tell later the risk of ostéoporose. It is necessary to know that the popular peak bony is attained in 20 years. The milk and dairy products are the best sources of calcium.

2) A portion of animal proteins a day (meat, fish, egg)

More precisely, 10 g are recommended, a day, (meat, fish or egg) per year of age + 10 g, is for example: 40 g of meat a day for a 3-year-old child or 80 g for a 7-year-old child (preferably a portion a day).

3) 5 portions of fruits and vegetables a day

Whatever is their presentation: freshly, deep-frozen, in preserve.

A portion is equivalent in about 80 g of fruit or of vegetables, or:

• • A half of plate of vegetables or a small plate of raw vegetables or a bowl of soup of vegetables;
  • A fruit portrays apple, pear, orange or two fruits portrays apricot, clementine, kiwi or a joystick of small fruits portray strawberries, cherries, lichees.

4) Starchies in every meal

Bread, pasta, rices, pulses, potatoes.

5) Limit the sugar without demonising it

The sugar must be a festive food, reserved for big occasions. He should not be demonised, but it is necessary to avoid excesses and not to get the children used to sweet taste. It is often what takes place with sweets and even more with consummate sweet drinks every day.

6) Give to drink some water

It is the only drink necessary for organism, without addition of sugar in form of fruit juice or of syrup.

These 6 landmarks are to set up in a rhythmic way during the day, that is to say around 3 meals a day (breakfast is a true meal) and of a snack.

To note finally that fast food restaurants are not either to demonise, it is necessary to limit them and to make sure them in the fact that they do not add up in other meals: a meal to the fast food restaurant from time to time (once every 3-6 weeks) at the habitual hour of meal, by making sure that portions are adapted

As though an allergy in a food was not enough, many people also suffer from crossed allergy, that is they react of a way exaggerated in different food of close chemical structure. What are main allergens and types of crossed allergies the most frequent?

Food allergy

It is about a reaction exaggerated by the immune system in a food which he admits as being dangerous. Most often, this reaction is launched having ingested the food in question but she can happen just as much after a cutaneous contact with the food (a handshake with a person who has just eaten peanuts for example) or respiratory (the simple smoke of cooking).

What are main allergens?

At the child

The egg white

The peanut

The cow’s milk

Leguminous plants (soya, pea, bean, lens, broad bean)

The fish

The group ‘nut ‘ (almond, hazelnut, nut, nut of Brazil, cashew nut, gable, pistachio)

The group ‘latex ‘ (lawyer, banana, chestnut, kiwi)

Cereals

The ‘ Ombellifères ‘ group (dill, carrot, celery, coriander, fennel, seeds of anise, parsley)

At the adult

The ‘ Rosacées ‘ group (apricot, cherry, strawberry, raspberry, hazelnut, peach, pear, apple, plum)

The group latex (lawyer, banana, chestnut, kiwi)

The ‘ Ombellifères ‘ group (dill, carrot, celery, coriander, fennel, seeds of anise, parsley)

The group nut (almond, hazelnut, nut, nut of Brazil, cashew nut, gable, pistachio)

The peanut

Cereals

Leguminous plants (soya, pea, bean, lens, broad bean)

The fish

The egg

Crossed allergies

Some allergic persons in a food react so strongly to other food to which chemical structure is close: it is crossed allergy. Sometimes, allergens come from very different sources.

Most known is the allergy crossed in the pollens of trees and in some fruits and vegetables.

Generally, the allergic demonstration in the pollen precedes food crossed allergy.

What are main types of crossed allergies?

Crossed allergies pneumallergènes-food

Pollen of birch: apricot, almond, nectarine, carrot, celery, kiwi, peach, hazelnut, nut, apple, potato.

Pollen of wormwood: dill, carrot, caraway, celery, coriander, fennel, parsley.

Pollen of ambrosia: banana, melon, watermelon.

Pollen of grasses: peanut, tomato.

Latex: apricot, lawyer, banana, chestnut, cherry, fig, passion fruit, kiwi, papaya.

Dust mites: snail.

Feathers of bird: egg.

Horse: horse’s meat.

Cat: pork meat.

Crossed allergies food-food

Oleaginous plant: almond, hazelnut, nut, nut of Brazil, cashew nut,  gable, pistachio.

Umbelliferae: dill, carrot, celery, coriander, fennel, parsley.

Leguminous plants: peanut, soya, pea, bean, lens, broad bean.

Crossed allergies food-latex

Lawyer, banana, kiwi, chestnut.

New crossed allergies: recent some studies suggest an allergy crossed between the flour of cereals and the kiwi.