In our still (at least distantly) Puritan society, all pleasures, certainly including masturbation and chocolate, are prone to be considered somehow 'wicked', or at least so self-indulgent that they are bound to lead to some sort of punishment. In the case of chocolate, the punishment, as 'everyone knows', is that it causes acne.
This is wrong. In their book Skin Deep, Drs Turkington and Dover wrote, 'In one study, 65 people ate chocolate bars every day for a month, but although the bars contained 10 times the normal amount of chocolate, the subjects experienced no worsening of blemishes’.
And researchers at the University of Pennsylvania in the US fed 50 teenagers with acne a pound of chocolate a day. The result was that the acne of 46 of them remained unchanged; two got worse; and two got better.' (There is no mention in this research of the impact of the intake of a pound of chocolate a day on any other aspect of the teenagers' health, but we do not recommend it!)
The fact is there is nothing in chocolate that has any direct effect on acne.
• Poor Hygiene Causes Acne
• First Shave Will Give You Acne
• Eating Chocolate Causes Acne
• Oily Foods Cause Acne
• Other Foods Cause Acne
• Allergies Cause Acne
• Waxing Causes Acne
• Sun Exposure Cures Acne
• Alcohol Dries Away Acne
• Essential Oils Help Cure Acne
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