superfoods
- I have IBS and got really sick on soy products and beans when I tried to go vegetarian. It just wasn't for me because I don't digest beans AT ALL! I get eczema and dry skin (live in the desert) and I find that eating cooked barley for a couple of days really helps a lot. I try to eat it at least once a week. I have a lot of food allergies and sensitivities and cannot eat processed foods or anything with chemical additives. I eat a rotation diet, and make all my own foods using organic whole ingredients and I'm doing great! I don't avoid sugar, I just use it in moderation. Sugar gets a bad rap and gets blamed for a lot, when really I think it's the additives that are put into most sweet foods that bother people. I drink a quart of kefir over 2 days and take a probiotic called Pearls IC daily, and since I started that I'm better. We just added chia to our psyllium/flax morning drink and we have more endurance when exercising. Chia is an ancient superfood....good for you...so is quinoa.
- —Guest blissfulbeader
Eating Right!
- I had leukemia 4 years ago. It was treated with chemo and it has not come back. My diet prior to illness was horrendous. I have come to recognize the importance food plays in our health. An excellent book is Anti Cancer - a new way of life by David Servan-Schreiber MD, PHD. I highly recommend it. It is readable and has solid suggestions for changing to an anti-inflammatory diet. Hope this helps someone out there.
- —Guest Bob
Tomatoes are Definitely Out
- Hi everyone. I have been eating spaghetti for last couple of days and last night I had a whole tomato. I woke up with my joints swollen and my left eye inflamed. So I will lay off he tomatoes. Garlic is great, I suggest flavouring your food or meats with garlic powder.
- —Guest jordan
Soy and IBS
- Long story short: began in 1997 when I quit dairy and started the "popular/good for you" soy milk. Suffered many years, 3 colonoscopies, drugs (asacol); but nothing made sense. I HAD ULCERATIVE COLITIS! 3 years ago, my doctor said I had to take asacol for the rest of my life, or suffer. Instead, I started to read ingredients and quit everything/all foods! NO exaggeration! And I "google searched" everything - esp. GMO corn and soy. 10 years later I decided to eat mostly 1 ingredient foods and almost zero processed/packaged food. Today, I can eat anything and everything that has, at most, just a few ingredients. (nothing that I can't pronounce, or don't have a clue what it is, including "natural flavors".) Most importantly, I found it was the soy that was causing inflammation. Today, the chicken I eat is coco-fed, and the meat is grass-fed. (not "vege-fed"). Overall, these last few years have been great!
- —unforgettable.com
My Hands Work Again!
- Ever since I adopted a more sane and healthy anti-inflammatory diet, my hands have lost that horrible morning swelling and stiffness and I am no longer worried that my health and my career as an artist are in jeopardy. Thank god for fresh fruits, vegetables, low fat proteins. I have booted out ALL sugar, ALL fast-food, and ALL white flour. (and I've lost a bunch of weight while getting healthier.) I was a skeptic about the relationship between diet and my swollen hands/arthritic symptoms -- but no longer!
- —Guest Jeanne
Chronic Inflammation
- I read a book about eating right for your blood type. Sounds good and have been trying to follow it. Was told to avoid potatoes, eggplant and tomatoes but no clear explanation why. This is it!! Thank you for sharing. I have a chronic inflammation problem that affects my pelvis and hips so walking can be very painful some days. This understanding will make my avoidance of these foods easier. I also take bromelain and quercetain supplements everyday to keep inflammation down. Thank you.
- —Guest Manyheart Mama
Oatmeal, Nightshades
- Would love to oatmeal for breakfast but can't do very often. If I eat oats 3 or 4 days in a row I break out in horrible case of hives. have tested myself on nightshades. Eggplant does bother me, but white potatoes don't at all and tomatoes only do if they are treated with chemicals when grown. Odd, I guess.
- —Guest MississippiMama
But how do you put up with the boredom?
- I have learned through trial and error that this is exactly the kind of diet I need. I never liked sugar, but I miss the taste of meat and potatoes a lot...it hardly seems worth the trouble of cooking anymore. How do you get over the boredom of this diet? I have lost so much to illness already, it is hard to accept losing the few pleasures that are left, like coffee, for example.
- —Guest ursula
Soy Milk?
- Due to my belief that the human body processes soy like estrogen, and that most soy in the US is a very chemically enhanced Monsanto product... I'd substitute something else and avoid soy and soy proteins entirely.
- —Guest Concern
Estoy impresionada
- I've learned something new about antinflammatory food, believe me; I was not doing it right.
- —Guest Naya Cruz
student
- Besides the stated dietary facts on treating anti inflamatory symptoms, I just want to add something related to food combination not discussed. Basically, certain fruits, apple juice in particular, contain powerful anti inflammatory potential if eaten on empty stomach and about one half or one hour before a meal. Otherwise, the fruit looses its healing power. I do not know the science involved but it does work!
- —Guest health seeker
Oatmeal
- Every morning I eat oatmeal with a banana mushed up in it and lots of cinnamon. I throw in some fresh blueberries too, yum!
- —Guest annmarie
Garlic is good
- My husband, who has a lot of joint pain, swears by raw garlic. You have to chew or crush it right before ingesting as there is some property in it that dissipates quickly and becomes ineffective after a short time. I tried it and couldn't keep it down, but he drinks milk to calm the stomach afterwards. Then chlorophyll tablets to cover the taste. If you are desperate, and can handle the raw garlic(3 or so cloves at a time) try it .
- —Guest Mary
Garlic is King
- Garlic is the secret to good health. Unless somebody can prove to me otherwise, I believe garlic is the most anti-inflammatory of all foods.
- —Guest Raymond
Tomatoes & white potatoes are OUT
- I'm glad to see that pineapple is an anti-inflammatory food - I love it! I'll start eating more ginger too... Maybe everyone already knows this, but I'll mention it anyway...I read earlier that tomatoes & white potatoes are INFLAMMATORY foods! Sorry tomatoes, will be avoiding you for a while to test the results! Good luck to all...
- —pearalta
