Anti-Inflammatory Foods

For me... gluten = bad.

My Dad had bad Rheumatoid Arthritis, couldn't eat any tomatoes as they always caused a flare-up. Oddly enough Heinz Tomato Soup didn't cause a flare up though...

He found that salmon, chicken and other lean proteins helped, and although he considered yogurt to be less than manly, it helped too. Carrots, broccoli, turnip/swede, parsnips were all good, strangely he had to avoid mushrooms.

It may all be different for other people of course. Hope you find foods that help you ;-)

Anti-inflamms I know of are
Vitd3
fish oil
turmeric

I am sure there are others, but those are great.


Foods I avoid
Anything with the ingredient carrageenan...nasty on my gut!

Other than that, I seem to be fine.

I've changed my diet considerably over the past 4 years and adopted many anti-inflammatory foods in the process. I have both the quality of life and extensive blood test improvements showing that it's worked. Plus I love the foods I'm eating now and get sick of the thought of the garbage I used to put in my body!

I have 2 chronic inflammatory conditions, Psoriatic Arthritis (mild RA) and Adhesive Arachnoiditis in my lower spine. My number one thing that has helped my pain level is eliminating processed sugar. I have also eliminated breads as well, so that automatically put me fairly gluten free, so it could have helped as well. I eat nuts, seeds, avocados, and lots of fresh leafy greens and other non-starch vegetables. I know from experience that tomatoes will cause a major flare up. I can get away with a little sauce here and there, but one day I ate a whole tomato and could not get out of bed the next day.

There are other foods that are supposed to help with inflammation. I saw a Doctor on Dr Oz one day that was talking about the 5 food groups that help with inflammation. You might want to check his show website and look for them. I know some of them were foods high in beta-carotine, in the yellow and orange color foods, cauliflower, citrus fruits, whole or cracked grains, oily fishes, and some herbs and spices- ginger, tumeric being the best. I also saw purple foods, but I had always heard that eggplant is in the nightshade group of vegetables which are known to CAUSE inflammation, so not sure if eggplant would be good or not.

I do know that since I have been eating this way for the past 2 months, my pain level has dropped dramatically and I am able to exercise so much more without increasing my meds any. I feel so fantastic, at least 10 years younger. Less moody and lots more energy. I will eat this way forever.

Good luck. hope you find some things that help you.

I was having this convo with my chiropractor today. He is telling me to stay away from beef/chicken/pork b/c they are high acidic. He said lots of citrus fruits, green veggies, omega 3 proteins are what my diet should be made up of.. and he said my love for Greek yogurt is fine.

http://whole9life.com/category/whole-30/

There is a link. It is a 30 day food challenge where all you pretty much eat is meat, vegetables, friut, seeds, and tree nuts. I guess you'd say paleo, but I really don't consider myself paleo. I will start reintroducing foods back in after the 30 days and see how they make me feel!!

My mom has rheumatoid arthritis (an inflammatory disease) and she says cutting gluten out completely has helped her immensely!

Interesting. I was having muscle spasms all the time either in my feet or back... and you just made me realize that those symptoms have stopped. Wow. Never even thought it could be related!

I'm going to have to learn to like sweet potatoes. I know that those are good but as a kid I HATED them so I have to find ways to make them the way I will actually "like" them.... the rest of what you mentioned I already eat except for Chia - I haven't been able to find it. Health food store? And how do you eat/prepare them?

Health food store should have chia seeds but if not they're on Amazon. I use ground chia in my morning smoothie, although it should probably be called a pudding because between the flax, the chia, and the hemp seeds it comes out so thick I put it in a bowl and eat it with a spoon

But there are lots of other ways to use chia seeds, for examples: http://www.chiaseedrecipes.com/40-ways-to-use-chia-seeds.php and health benefits at: http://www.livestrong.com/article/444471-top-ten-health-benefits-of-chia-seeds/

ginger is good as well. if you have an asian market near you, you can find ginger tea.

i also use fresh ginger in my cooking

So for a while now I've been doing some reading up on anti-inflammatory foods, and I am wondering if anyone else here has been doing their homework on it as well....

I've been trying to incorporate some of these foods every day into my diet since I started here and I HAVE noticed a difference in how I feel.

Has anyone else tried to ramp up on these foods or ????

Total crap. Different people react to different foods differently. There is a reliable blood test that can determine inflammatory response to foods, and it has not shown any sort of universal inflammatory/anti-inflammatory responses.

E.g. I have 0 inflammatory reaction to gluten, solanine, and a variety of other widely considered "inflammatory" foods, but many "anti-inflammatory" foods such as sweet potato and olive oil produce a profound inflammatory reaction.

Simply put, this whole area of nutrition is overhyped and not supported by science.

This is the Oprah show in here with Dr. Oz and Sylvia Browne. No one is going to accept science.