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Use Essential Fatty Acid To Help You Prevent or Eliminate Your Acne

Acne is often a symptom of an imbalance in the body. Nutritional imbalances and deficiencies can unbalance our body chemistry and cause disease symptoms, like acne. In this article, author Rudy Silva explains the importance of essential fatty acids (fatty acids that our body can't synthesize from other nutrients) and how they can improve our health and help clear or prevent acne. Strange but true - getting ENOUGH of the RIGHT oils in your diet can clear up acne, a problem we associate with getting TOO MUCH oil in our diet!

Getting sufficient essential fatty acids is of prime importance in clearing acne. It’s these fatty acids that help to control the production of excess androgens – the hormones that surge during the teen-age times. It is androgens, which cause excess sebum oil to clog your hair follicles and contribute to creating your acne.

The three fatty acids you need to get daily are:

omega-3

omega-6

omega-9

When you are deficient in these essential fatty acids, you will have:

	A weakened immune system
	Inflammatory disorders
	Poor skin
	Skin eruptions and other wounds that won’t heal
	Sebum production increases (this is what happens when you have acne)
	Sebaceous glands size increases

Eating essential oils are necessary to provide you the right oils that are used in the sebaceous glands. These oils can come from straight vegetable oils or from oils in specific foods such as nuts and seeds.

Here’s what you need to do. Use flax seed oil (omega-3 oil) and olive oil (omega-6 oil) in your salad. These are the best oils to eat and are called polyunsaturated fatty acids.

The other oil that is even better for you is called monounsaturated fatty acid or omega-9. This oil is found in avocados and somewhat in olive oil.

Most diets people contain an excess of omega-6 oil (olive oil), so mostly likely you need to concentrate on getting more omega-3 oil (flax seed oil) into your diet.

You can get omega-3 oil from:

	avocados
	sesame seeds
	pumpkin seeds
	walnuts
	dark leafy green vegetables (spinach, mustard greens, kale)
	wheat germ oil
	salmon
	sardines
	albacore tuna

Or, you can take one to two tablespoon of flax seed oil, omega-3 oil, each day. This will give you the amount of omega-3 oil that your body needs. You can add this oil to your morning cereal, soups, smoothies, salads and other liquid foods.

You can get omega-6 oil from:

	olive oil
	flaxseed oil
	flaxseeds
	grape seed oil
	pistachio nuts
	olives
	sunflower seeds
	chicken
	evening primrose oil
	pumpkin seeds
	pine nuts

Taking 2-3 tablespoons of omega-6 oil a day will give you the amount of this oil that your body needs.

So, to control those androgens and help your body reduce the production of acne or pimples start using more essential fatty acids.

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Rudy Silva has a degree in Physics and is a Natural Nutritionist. He is the author of Constipation, Acne, Hemorrhoid, and Essential Fatty Acid ebooks. His information can be seen at http://www.acne-remedies.for--you.info