Anti inflammatory diet???

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  • kimny72
    kimny72 Posts: 16,011 Member
    edited June 2018
    Candyspun wrote: »
    Oh, and to the person who hit the ‘woo’ button: prior to eating this way, I was on bed rest most days. I was in excruciating pain standing up, sitting down, and I walked around like a little old lady. Everything hurt, all the time. I couldn’t move my bowels properly.

    I’m not saying it has cured me. I will always have endo. But I’m not living a miserable existence anymore. I can move around with a lot less pain. I can now exercise more vigorously. And because I can exercise, I’m finally losing weight. I also went from catching every cold and flu to hardly catching anything at all. Explain to me, how me stating what has personally worked for MY body, is ‘woo’?

    You’ve really crapped on my efforts, here. I can walk without pain, now. How dare you dismiss that?

    There have been many threads where people say they thought woo was a good thing. I wouldn't expend too much indignation over a random internet stranger clicking the woo button, especially when it's so easy to accidentally click a button while scrolling through a thread on your phone and when so many people are confused by what woo is.

    Having said that, another possibility is your use of the term "bone broth" which is often purported to heal all ills on woo-woo blogs, it's a triggering term for some folks :drinker:
  • Candyspun
    Candyspun Posts: 370 Member
    Thanks, Kimny
  • Candyspun
    Candyspun Posts: 370 Member
    Great effort, Gale
  • nvmomketo
    nvmomketo Posts: 12,019 Member
    SCoil123 wrote: »
    nvmomketo wrote: »
    workinonit1956 wrote: »
    stanmann571 wrote: »
    AnnPT77 wrote: »
    Why do answers to this kind of question mostly talk about what to leave out? ;) To me, it makes more sense to talk about what to include in one's eating. ;)

    Besides good protein sources (some of which can be plants), and healthy fats (nuts, avocados, seeds, olive oil, etc.), eat plenty of nutritious, varied, colorful veggies and fruits. They're full of nice antioxidants and fiber. Five servings daily is good, more can be even better.

    In actual practice, the idea of an anti-inflammatory diet tends to get a little woo-y pretty fast: Lots of eye-roll-y nonsense on the web from the usual alt-health quacks, hard to sort from useful info. Mainly, focus on getting an overall nutritious, well-rounded diet at an appropriate calorie level, and keep foods that are calorie-dense but not nutrition-dense (cookies, cake, sugary drinks, alcohol) as "sometimes" foods, a small part of your eating, to be savored when calories are available and after all the major nutrition boxes are checked, or on the rare special occasion. Advice from mainstream national and international nutrition bodies (USDA, WHO, etc.) is mostly not stupid.

    One of the biggest things to do to combat system inflammation is simply to be at a healthy body weight. If you're overweight or obese, pick a calorie goal that will get you losing 1% of your body weight per week or less, and stick with it. Get some exercise, if you aren't already - that reduces system inflammation over time, too. Think about stress reduction, for bonus points.

    And consider getting a new doctor - one who sends you off to go on a potentially misunderstandable diet, with no guidance, isn't doing you many favors, IMO.
    mbaker566 wrote: »
    i found it to be pointless. google has many different versions if you want to give it a try
    usually includes no dairy, gluten, or red meat. alcohol depends on the version.

    SOME Celiac have been successfully treated(cured?) by daily mega doses of bran.
    Not true, Celiac is an autoimmune disease. No amount of bran (?) or anything else will cure it. The only treatment is the gluten free diet.

    I was going to comment on that too. There is no food out there that stops an (auto)immune response from happening. Would be nice, but autoimmune diseases don't work that way.

    ETA that some foods are less inflammatory than others in some situations. High sugar and insulin are thought to be more inflammatory than low sugar(glucose) and insulin.

    While no diet cures an autoimmune disease there are ways of eating that reduce symptoms of many autoimmune conditions. I’ve never heard the bran thing before though

    I agreed completely. To discount foods is to ignore a potentially influential factor in disease management... There is just no cure.

    I am a celiac. If I avoid gluten I'll eventually, after months or years, test negative for the disease, but as soon as I eat gluten again it is a positive result.

    I have a couple of other autoimmune issues where the attack causes permanent damage. Even if the immune response stops, the damage is done.
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