 There is no good evidence that diet affects acne
BDP,
Acne is a very difficult condition to explain and it may well be that you get similar effects in different indviduals from different causes.
I did a review of the effect of diet on acne about six years ago. At that time there was no strong evidence of any general effect of diet on acne. I haven't kept up to date on the scientific literature since then so something may have made it into print since, but a quick google search hasn't thrown anything up and I think it would have been big news if a link was shown.
However there are persistent anecdotal reports from individuals that particular foods affect their acne - yours being another one. Another good example is zinc, as Mathew mentioned earlier. This hasn't been shown to work clinically, but there is an acne product that contains zinc that seems to work better than very similar products without zinc. There is also a product in France that contains zinc and copper which again fails in the clinic but seems to work miracles on particular individuals.
As a scientist I hate to advocate nonscientific treatments, but it does seem to be be the case with acne that some of them might be worth a punt. They probably won't work but you may be lucky. I wouldn't bother with the urine therapy or homeopathy though.
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