In a message dated 7/3/01 7:01:58 AM Pacific Daylight Time,
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<< What is the mechanism by which dietary fats increase oil
 production in the skin?  Is it known?
  >>
I find it hard to believe there is any connection at all. And as for people
"eating a high fat diet and getting oily skin", surely Americans,
particularly teenagers, do not eat a high fat diet, they eat a high carbo
diet. This seems a more likely connection and cause.

Charles
San diego, CA