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Anti-Inflammatory Recipes?

punkypowers
punkypowers Posts: 1 Member
edited November 2024 in Food and Nutrition
Hi,
I am looking for anyone out there who has some good anti-inflammatory recipes. All types too, breakfast, snack, lunch, dinner and desert.
I'm not super picky and will try just about anything once. I'm really looking to being my chronic inflammation to an all time low.

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  • shaumom
    shaumom Posts: 1,003 Member
    I REALLY liked this one cookbook on this - all anti-inflammatory recipes. The gal making it has a condition with chronic inflammation, so this is essentially what she eats. Her recipes are also low histamine, which is helpful to lower inflammation if you have any due to allergies too (she has another condition involving histamine as well).

    http://lowhistaminechef.com - look in her store section for the books, but her 'freebies' section has some of her recipes as well.

    But for something nice and quick for dessert? If you can get an electric ice cream maker - I think you can find some cheap ones these days - just take a few ripe fruits, blend them up in a blender, and then put them in the ice cream maker and make sorbet out of them. It's lovely, and quick, and great for summer. A little lemon juice often helps if the fruit is a bit too sweet (although for taste testing, cold lowers your tongue's ability to taste sweet, so you want the warm fruit juice/pulp a bit sweeter than you like, and once it freezes is should be at the right sweetness).

    If it's hard fruits, you can cook them until soft and then follow the same procedure. ^_^
  • MsJoisey
    MsJoisey Posts: 29 Member
    Dr. Andrew Weil has an anti-inflammatory diet and I believe he has a cookbook out. You can check him out at dwell.com.
  • Mr_Knight
    Mr_Knight Posts: 9,532 Member
    How are you measuring inflammation?
  • shaumom
    shaumom Posts: 1,003 Member
    edited May 2015
    Mr_Knight, In terms of what is anti-inflammatory vs. inflammatory? Or in terms of person inflammation?

    I do not remember all of the markers, but for anti-inflammatory vs. inflammatory, the foods I've seen listed that seemed what I would consider legitimate rather than woo-woo were based on studies that looked at biomarkers of inflammation, or measurements of substances in the body that are known to cause inflammation. The foods in question seem to affect the substances that indicate an increase in inflammation, or a decrease.

    There is not always a known reason for the effect, although sometimes there is. If there is no known reason, I personally look at the study itself to see how well done it was, and if it's worth considering even though we don't know yet why a food could cause a certain effect.

    One biomarker for inflammation is prostaglandins, for example. Foods that result in an increase of prostaglandins after ingestion would be considered inflammatory. Foods that are mast cell stabilizing (which would cause the mast cells to be less likely to release prostaglandins) would be anti-inflammatory. Another example: high levels of histamines can cause an increase in inflammation as well, so substances that lower histamine levels can be anti-inflammatory for someone who has difficulty with allergies, say.

    That said, though, of course foods are more complicated than just a few components, so whether a given food falls on the inflammatory side or anti-inflammatory side can be in question. I don't think anyone really knows all of it at this point, so there's still lots of speculation and trying things out until the day when medical science has done more research on it all.

    Personally, I figure sometimes, that comes down to the individual and how her body deals with certain foods. For myself, I have a few injuries that respond to inflammation. More pain when the body has more inflammation, less pain when there is less. So at least that's one easy way to see when something is anti-inflammatory or inflammatory for me personally. :-)
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