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Great food for inflammation sufferers.

Cut your finger accidentally and the area will swell, redden, and heat up. This type of acute inflammatory response is the body’s reaction to trauma, and it’s an essential part of the healing process. But inflammation can be harmful when it hangs around too long and refuses to leave. When the inflammation switch refuses to turn off, the body operates as if it is always under attack (the older we get, the more likely this is to happen). White blood cells flood the system for weeks, months, and even years.

Researchers are now linking low-grade, persistent inflammation to premature aging, heart disease, M.S., diabetes, Alzheimer’s, psoriasis, arthritis, and cancer.
While anti-inflammatory drugs do exist, they can injure the stomach or suppress the immune system. Fortunately, the situation can be remedied by a change in diet, specifically by altering the kinds of fats you eat. Omega-3 fatty acids tend to decrease inflammation while omega-6 fats and trans-fats increase inflammation. While many foods in the standard American diet (unrefined white flour, sugar, red meat, diary, fast food, and food additives) exacerbate inflammation, a healthy diet made up of fish, nuts, seeds, oils, lean grass-fed meats, and fruits and vegetables can help lessen or prevent inflammation. Likewise, certain spices such as turmeric, cloves, and ginger have proven anti-inflammatory activity.

Anti-Inflammatory Foods for Health will help those with inflammation incorporate anti-inflammatory foods into their everyday diet. Sample recipes may include French-Canadian Pea Soup, Sumac Salmon, Maple-Ginger Butternut Squash, Lime-Ginger Glazed Chicken with Fennel Relish, Green Salad with Grapes and Sunflower Seeds, Cod with Saffron Sauce, and more.

From the Publisher

Inflammation and Disease

Increasingly, we are becoming aware that inflammation underlies many of the world’s most common diseases, even the process of aging. Clearly, inflammation is associated with such obvious inflammatory conditions as rheumatoid arthritis, but did you know that inflammation is a risk factor for developing heart disease and cancer, our most common killers?

Given this, shouldn’t we all be trying to do something to reduce inflammation? One thing we all can do is to eat healthier foods—foods that help combat inflammation.

Let this recipe book serve as your guide to preventing or combating inflammation and improving your health through diet. The calorie-controlled recipes you will find in each chapter will not only help fight inflammation, but they will also help you control excess body weight—a major risk factor for inflammation.

Boost Omega-3s

Adding more unsaturated fats and omega-3 fatty acids to your diet, and reducing saturated and trans fats, is important to developing a healthier way of eating. Unsaturated fats such as flaxseed and canola oil contain important antioxidants to protect your body from oxidative stress and help prevent the development of cancer cells. An adequate source of unsaturated fats assists your body in reducing inflammation and creating more flexible cell membranes, which is important in the prevention of heart disease. Omega-3s have the additional benefit of being a natural blood thinner, which protects against stroke.

Add-In Antioxidants

Antioxidants are chemicals that prevent or interrupt certain types of chemical reactions in the body. Thousands, even millions, of chemical reactions are happening in your body all the time. Some of these reactions involve the transfer of electrons from one molecule to another, creating unstable molecules, called free radicals, that are damaging to the body. Free radicals can damage or destroy cells, proteins, and even our basic genetic material, DNA. Antioxidants have the ability to stabilize free radicals, preventing the damage they cause.

ASIN ‏ : ‎ B004GHNLRW
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Fair Winds Press
Accessibility ‏ : ‎ Learn more
Publication date ‏ : ‎ January 1, 2008
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 17.8 MB
Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Print length ‏ : ‎ 196 pages
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1616734282
Page Flip ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Part of series ‏ : ‎ Healthy Living Cookbooks
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