Inflammatory foods: gas on fire
In my previous article titled Inflammation … it’s a pot. I talked about how inflammation cooks the body like an egg or a piece of meat in a crock pot. This article is a follow-up to describe the particular foods that can put gas on that fire and accelerate the degeneration of the body’s tissues and organs. This can lead to increased back and joint pain, as well as other damage, as you will see. I will keep the list of foods short and sweet (no pun intended) to make changes to your diet easier to remember.
The top three sources of gas (no, not that kind of gas)
1) Sugar: Blood sugar in the wrong amounts negatively affects our hormones, especially insulin. Therefore, do not eat simple sugars in large quantities and focus on carbohydrates that are very complex, such as colorful fruits and vegetables. It is important to note that cereals and bread are also sugars and increase blood sugar and also increase the response to insulin. So limit the amounts of starchy foods and breads as much as you can. If you can, try to stick to whole grains as they are more anti-inflammatory, but they can be a problem due to the gluten content which in some people can cause even more problems. If you want a starchy food, potatoes are our top pick: sweet, red, white, and yam.
2) Meats: Proteins should be consumed with every meal as they create a balance with carbohydrates and help keep blood sugar levels in check, but try eating grass-fed fish or beef or lamb and try to avoid fatty meats. The main reason meat can be bad is that there are two pathways for omega 3 and omega 6 fatty acids. Omega 3 fatty acids found primarily in fish follow a non-inflammatory pathway and actually reduce inflammation. but omega 6 fatty acids can follow two routes and one of them is very inflammatory, so obviously fish is a good source of protein.
Diets low in Omega 3 and high in Omega 6 fatty acids will tend to produce higher levels of inflammation, especially if the diet is lacking in important nutrients such as magnesium and B vitamins. Remember that both Omega 3 and Omega 6 fatty acids they are in fact essential fatty acids and both are necessary for the body to function properly. The American diet can have an Omega 6 to Omega 3 ratio as high as 20: 1 or even 40: 1. A healthier Omega 6 to Omega 3 ratio is around 4: 1 or as low as 2: 1. As You can see, a healthy diet still has more Omega 6 fatty acids than Omega 3 fatty acids, but certainly not the ratio that we commonly see in our diets here in the US.
3) Vegetable oils: (soy, corn oil, sunflower oil, safflower oil, peanut oil, and cottonseed oil) and trans fats found in almost all packaged foods and fried foods like potatoes fried. Push the ratio of Omega 6 to Omega 3 backwards to damage your inflammatory levels as described above.
The human body is disturbed when we eat the wrong foods and in the wrong combinations. Biochemical and inflammatory damage occurs in tissues when we eat a diet that is deficient in fruits and vegetables, and contains excess sugar, meats, vegetable oils (not olive oil), and trans fats found in almost all packaged foods. And fried foods like French. potato chips Inflammation associated with a poor diet may start initially without symptoms, making it very difficult to detect, however over time this diet-driven chronic inflammation can lead to chronic diseases that plague us all, causing chronic aches and pains. and endless suffering. Every time you eat the wrong foods, you create inflammation in your body that will slowly but surely lead to chronic pain, cancer, heart disease, Alzheimer’s disease, and many others. Therefore, your diet and supplements are essential to prevent and treat this problem. In short, we need to eat grass-fed vegetables and meats and fish and take the right supplements (such as Omega 3 supplements) and reduce our intake of sugars and grains, bad oils and inappropriate meats and we need to exercise more … These are the things we must do to promote an anti-inflammatory lifestyle.