{"id":1438,"date":"2012-02-13T20:07:56","date_gmt":"2012-02-13T20:07:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.seasidemedicalpractice.com\/dev\/\/dev\/blog\/?p=238"},"modified":"2012-02-13T20:07:56","modified_gmt":"2012-02-13T20:07:56","slug":"the-inflammatory-diet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.seasidemedicalpractice.com\/dev\/the-inflammatory-diet\/","title":{"rendered":"The Inflammatory Diet"},"content":{"rendered":"

Not until recently have researchers been able to directly link food to the immune system.\u00a0 A fascinating new article in New England Journal of Medicine, a premier medical science journal, \u201cDiet and Intestinal Immunity,\u201d outlines the findings of two studies linking dietary components of certain foods to intestinal immune receptors.\u00a0 The receptors, aryl hydrocarbon receptor (AhR) interacts with the particular food, sends a signal to the nucleus of the cells lining the intestinal tract, and stimulates or inhibits the\u00a0 genes responsible for triggering the immune system.\u00a0 The foods are cruciferous vegetables, e.g. broccoli, cabbage, and brussels sprouts.\u00a0 Laboratory animals with a defect in these receptors, are highly susceptible to infections, have increased vulnerability to immune activation, and altered composition of microflora of the gut.\u00a0 AhR is dampened in persons with IBD, irritable bowel diseases such as ulcerative colitis and Crohn\u2019s disease.\u00a0 These studies raise the question of, \u201cis there such a thing as an inflammatory diet\u201d?<\/p>\n

Nutritionists say, \u201cYes, in deed.\u201d\u00a0 Clinical nutritionist, Shereen Jegtvig wrote an entire book on an inflammation-free diet, SuperFoods for Dummies.
\nMy basic recommendations for an anti-inflammatory diet are:<\/p>\n

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  1. The more colorful your plate, the better. Five to eight servings of fruits and vegetables per day. According to the study above, broccoli, brussels sprouts, and cabbage are essential.<\/li>\n
  2. Use more plant-based proteins such as soy, nuts and legumes.<\/li>\n
  3. Avoid highly processed foods, and packaged foods.\u00a0 At the grocery store, perimeter shopping is better.<\/li>\n
  4. Eat more fish, at least 3 servings per week.<\/li>\n
  5. Limit high fat meats.\u00a0 People who consume red meat everyday have lower life expectancy.<\/li>\n
  6. Limit sugars, especially refined sugars and simple carbohydrates.<\/li>\n
  7. Drink water, herbal teas, green tea and milk.\u00a0 Limit sodas and fruit juices with added sugar.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    References:<\/p>\n

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    1. Diet and Intestinal Immunity, Tilg,H<\/a>.<\/li>\n
    2. Anti-inflammatory Foods, Jegtvig, S.<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

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      Not until recently have researchers been able to directly link food to the immune system.\u00a0 A fascinating new article in New England Journal of Medicine, a premier medical science journal, \u201cDiet and Intestinal Immunity,\u201d outlines the findings of two studies linking dietary components of certain foods to intestinal immune receptors.\u00a0 The receptors, aryl hydrocarbon receptor […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3322,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","_seopress_titles_title":"Inflammatory Diets and How to Combat Them","_seopress_titles_desc":"It has recently been noticed that some foods can cause ill effects. Inflammatory diets can be combated, though, and Seaside Medical has info on that!","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[48,49,34,50,51,52,53],"class_list":["post-1438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-weight-and-nutrition-therapy","tag-anti-inflammatory-diet","tag-food-allergy","tag-health-santa-monica","tag-immune-diet","tag-inflammation-diet","tag-inflammatory-diet","tag-weight"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.seasidemedicalpractice.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1438","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.seasidemedicalpractice.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.seasidemedicalpractice.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seasidemedicalpractice.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seasidemedicalpractice.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1438"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.seasidemedicalpractice.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1438\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.seasidemedicalpractice.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seasidemedicalpractice.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seasidemedicalpractice.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}