# Is Olive Oil and Salt Necessary For the Body But Bad For Acne?

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [September 23, 2014, 2:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-olive-oil-and-salt-necessary-for-the-body-but-bad-for-acne/699296 "2014-09-23T02:35:19Z")\
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**Author:** ![sisu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/df705f/32.png) [@sisu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sisu)\
**Post date:** [September 24, 2014, 6:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-olive-oil-and-salt-necessary-for-the-body-but-bad-for-acne/699296/21 "2014-09-24T06:29:53Z")

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> [@QuickSilver](#):
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> Are you under the care of a dermatologist?
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> If not, why not?

Government conspiracy etc.

Hey olive oil and salt don’t contribute to acne as far as I have seen.

It’s mainly down to Androgen levels and blocking of hair follicles.

The only real study I have seen with regards to diet was in regards to high carb diets oh some medications like lithium can be the cause.

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**Author:** ![DSeid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dseid/32/20194_2.png) [@DSeid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DSeid)\
**Post date:** [September 24, 2014, 11:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-olive-oil-and-salt-necessary-for-the-body-but-bad-for-acne/699296/22 "2014-09-24T11:45:00Z")

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> [@grude](#):
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> [Less is more when restraining calories boosts immunity | ScienceDaily](http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/04/100429111015.htm)
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> I’ve heard that being slightly calorie restricted boosts your immune system, I wonder if that could be what is going on.

The speculations seem to be generally more around endocrine impacts of the standard Western diet, such as insulin resistance.

Funny enough olive oil is a staple of the so-called Mediterranean diet. [This study](http://sjp.sagepub.com/content/40/5/466.abstract) (just a case control so I’d say take it with a grain of salt but in this thread that might be distracting …) not only shows a correlation of familial high cholesterol, diabetes and heart disease with acne severity, but a protective effect of that high olive oil Mediterreanean diet, which is [documented](http://care.diabetesjournals.org/content/early/2012/12/02/dc12-0869.abstract) to improve insulin sensitivity.

So **Pauly** if you want to have a diet thatmight help with acne eat lots of fruits, vegetables, unrefined grains, potatoes, beans, nuts and seeds, moderate fish and chicken, maybe a little meat and yes, lots of oilive oil.

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**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\
**Post date:** [September 24, 2014, 11:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-olive-oil-and-salt-necessary-for-the-body-but-bad-for-acne/699296/23 "2014-09-24T11:52:49Z")

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> [@Surreal](#):
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> Interestingly, some populations apparently don’t have _any_ acne:
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> [Acne vulgaris: a disease of Western civilization - PubMed](http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12472346)

The Aché don’t get Acne?

Some days, the poems just write themselves. Sort of,

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