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I've been doing a lot of research recently into inflammation and how it affects our lifestyles and quality of living. Eating anti-inflammatory foods and herbs seems to be an overarching way of increasing the quality of a person's life over a long period of time. In the modern day and age, people are living longer than ever before. But is the quality of that life improving as well? One has to ask themselves the question, it really worthwhile to live till I'm 90 if the last 15 years of my life are filled with things like chemotherapy, alzheimers, and arthritis? It seems that even though people are living longer and longer, the amount of illnesses and ailments present in the modern world seem to be on the rise as well.
One of the big proponents of this is our diets. No one will argue that the Standard American Diet is absolutely replete with unhealthy foods. The amount of processing, preserving, artificial coloring and sweetening in the Standard American Diet is pretty staggering. Many of the foods we eat actually seem to cause a state of general inflammation in the body. Inflammation in and of itself is actually a protection mechanism the body uses to isolate harmful things and process them. Inflammation happens when a person gets bit by a poisonous bug, or when a sudden impact causes blunt force trauma to a particular region of the body. By swelling and isolating the region, the body can best protect itself from further harm and take steps to repair the damage.
The problem occurs when our bodies are encouraged toward an inflammatory state due to the foods that we eat. Foods in general are said to either be anti-inflammatory or pro-inflammatory. As you can imagine, foods that are pro-inflammatory will increase the amount of inflammation a person experiences in various parts of their body. Pain will generally increase, and the risk of many chronic diseases also seems to go up. Foods like junk foods, fast foods, sugar, processed foods and high fat meats are at the top of the list of anti inflammatory foods. When a person's body is in a state of higer inflammation, things like arthritis seem to grow especially worse and the corresponding pain also seems to go up.
Eating foods that are generally anti-inflammatory and adding in herbs and spices that have anti-inflammatory effects are a great way to boost overall health over a long period of time. There is a lot of literature that has already been written about anti-inflammatory diets and anyone interested in the topic should definitely continue to do research on the subject. I originally began doing research when I found out that arthritis runs in our family. I wanted to see if there was anything that I could do that would help stop the arthritis before it ever started. That led me to the realm of anti-inflammatory herbs and foods. I found that in general, to keep a mindset of avoiding foods that caused inflammation in the body would lead to an overall state of wellness and would help the body fight chronic diseases like arthritis and other things. So in a way, having a heritage of arthritis in my family was almost a blessing because it led me to research about ways to improve my overall health.
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