Good skin is one of the first things I noticed doing Atkin's. I never break out any more, but when I ate alot of carbs I would break out occassionally. There is a lot of research going on relating carbohydrates consumption (especially the sugars and refined ones) with a lot of the skin problems such as acne, wrinkles, etc., that are only found in the industrialized western cultures and other nations that adhere to the high-carbohydrate diets. Once primitive cultures that lived off meats, and things they can grow, like non-starchy vegetables, were cultured into a more western style diet with a lot of carbohydrates, they had many of the similar skin problems associated with the western culture. So Atkin's is good for the skin it seems.