RT Book, Section
A1 Baumann, Leslie
A2 Baumann, Leslie
A2 Saghari, Sogol
A2 Weisberg, Edmund
SR Print(0)
ID 1172446020
T1 Nutrition and the Skin
T2 Cosmetic Dermatology: Principles and Practice, 2e
YR 2009
FD 2009
PB The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.
PP New York, NY
SN 9780071490627
LK dermatology.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1172446020
RD 2024/04/25
AB Food  is  the  only  medicine  that  the  average  healthy  individual  requires  on  a  daily  basis.  Indeed,  more  than  2000  years  ago,  Hippocrates  is  said  to  have  offered:  “Let  food  be  your  medicine,  and  let  medicine  be  your  food.”1  It  is  from  such  a  perspective—that  good  nutrition  is  a  fundamental  building  block  of  good  general  health  and  healthy  skin—that  this  discussion  proceeds.  Specifically,  this  chapter  will  focus  on  some  of  the  key  chemical  components  of  a  healthy  diet  that  have  been  shown  to  confer  benefits  to  the  skin.  In  the  process,  cutaneous  effects  will  be  discussed  in  the  context  of  vegetarianism,  as  well  as  the  skin  types  of  the  Baumann  Skin  Typing  System.  Attention  will  first  be  focused  on  the  effects  of  diet  on  acne,  the  most  common  dermatologic  condition,  and,  finally,  on  oral  supplementation.