How to Follow an Anti-Inflammatory Diet

[safeinOhio]

https://www.consumerreports.org/healthy-eating/how-to-follow-an-anti-inflammatory-diet/

"Many of the foods that are prevalent in a typical American diet are the very ones that fuel unhealthy levels of inflammation. “Red meat, processed meat, saturated and trans fats, added sugars, fried foods, and refined carbohydrates all directly trigger pro-inflammatory responses,” Hu says.

In a recent study published in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology, Hu and other researchers at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health followed more than 200,000 men and women for up to 32 years. “We found that the people who ate a diet containing the most pro-inflammatory foods had a 46 percent increased risk of heart disease,” Hu says."

Can't hurt to follow this. Eat to live, don't live to eat.

[NRaleighLiberal]

1. one thing I want to emphasize - there are websites that tell people to avoid tomatoes

because of possible cause of inflammation (I guess because of their being in the Nightshade family).

I can honestly say that after eating countless tons of tomatoes annually for 40 years, it is fake news! Inflammation free here!

[safeinOhio]

2. A lot of these food problem are like diarrhea

they run in your genes.

[Mike 03]

3. Thank you. That was just on my mind last weekend. I read that Tom Brady

tells people to avoid "the nightshade" family of vegetables in his health program.

I wanted to know if there is a shred of science behind that. I eat bell peppers almost every day but have been having bad digestive issues since November and am trying to figure out what I'm doing wrong, or if it could possibly be bell peppers.

[NRaleighLiberal]

4. green bell peppers, for whatever reason, can "repeat" on people -

but allowing them to ripen to red, orange or yellow seems to be better.

Tom Brady's ideas on nutrition are, to me, a pretty big pant load of bullshit in general. If it works for him, great - but there is a great deal of placebo effect with regards to things we ingest, medicines, etc. We are far more complex organisms - and vary widely genetically person to person - to make blanket pronouncements worth much.

[Warpy]

5. Yeah, but neither you nor I make the rules

Some people are going to live to eat because that's about all they have, physical pleasures.

Yeah, it was frustrating to see heart failure patients going through a revolving door to the hospital because they couldn't manage to stop eating an unhealthy diet, or they thought they could smoke just a little bit. We all wished they'd wake up, but for one reason or another, they weren't able to. So we tried to buy them a little more good time at home.

I've recently discovered that I'm on the DASH diet through absolutely no effort on my part. Oh, I have a few cheats here and there, but not in large enough quantity to present a problem. Imagine my surprise, I never intended to follow anyone's diet advice.

https://www.mayoclinic.org/healthy-lifestyle/nutrition-and-healthy-eating/in-depth/dash-diet/art-20048456

Oh, and my blood pressure has been normal without medication for 8 years. Maybe somebody was monitoring my purchases at the grocery store to find out how I did it and wrote it up as a diet. Life is weird.

[safeinOhio]

6. Sure is, all my life I had tachycardia, the army wouldn't even

take me back in 1968. A year ago I was told I have bradycardia and then in Nov. this year I was feeling very tired. My GF took my pulse, she looked up at me and said "I'm taking you to the ER". My pulse was 28 bpm and I left two days later with a pacemaker. Go figure.