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Inflammation plays an important role in helping your body heal. If you've ever jammed your finger, scraped your knee, or sprained your ankle, you're already familiar with acute inflammation. Your body suffers an injury, it swells up and hurts; that tells you that you are supposed to rest and support it until it heals. Inflammation is part of your body's response to nearly any type of physical injury and is critical for health.
However, inflammation is not always as obvious or benign as the above examples. It can silently involve every cell in your body and, over time, negatively affect your health and abilities. Chronic inflammation is our enemy. Chronic inflammation puts your body's immune system in overdrive and in the process, healthy cells can be damaged. An overactive immune system can lead to cardiovascular disease, neurological disease, Alzheimer's, type II diabetes, arthritis, lung disease, cancer or autoimmunity.
How can you tell if you have chronic inflammation?
The levels of certain chemicals in your blood are known to increase with increased levels of inflammation. One of these chemical markers for inflammation is a protein called C-reactive protein (CRP). CRP is often measured in conjunction with other blood tests, and normal values are well established. From a clinical standpoint, a CRP level of less than 5 milligrams per liter of blood is considered normal. "Normal" may not be optimal, though. Many medical researchers believe that even slight elevations of CRP are tied to increased risk for heart attack, stroke, and many other diseases.
What Inflammatory Foods Are You Eating?
If you have a food intolerance, those items are activating your immune system when you eat them. You need to stop eating them or try a rotational diet. In addition, whether you are intolerant, allergic or not, the following foods are have inflammatory affects in the body and should be consumed with awareness and limitation:
- Sugar
- Alcohol
- Conventional meat – cows/sheep/weren't designed to eat corn, and their feed changes the composition of their cells making them high in omega 6?s and low in Omega 3?s. They also are laden with growth hormones and antibiotics.
- Polyunsaturated oils like corn, soybean, sunflower, safflower, cottonseed and other vegetable oils because they are high in Omega 6?s and so many prepared foods are cooked with them.
- Transfats -Watch out for packages that claim to have zero grams per serving-that means there ARE transfats in the item, just less than they need to report (PER SERVING) – and who eats the serving size anyway?!)
- Dairy products – it's estimated that up to 60% of the world's population can't digest dairy, and it's a common allergen that triggers inflammatory responses.
- Processed meats -this includes anything smoked, salted, cured, or chemically preserved.
- Refined grains (i.e. white flour, white rice, bread, pasta, baked goods.)
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