: Dietary Inflammation Drives Diseases and Death
Health News Update: Dietary Inflammation Drives Diseases and Death 7.28.25
Hello again everyone: Here are two papers of tremendous interest because they reveal the link between dietary inflammation and health. Bear in mind that the two leading causes of death in our country are cardiovascular disease (CVD) and cancer…directly caused by chronic inflammation.
Conclusion
Chronic inflammation appears to play a key role in the development of CVD and certain cancers. The results from the present study suggest that eating a diet high in sugar, saturated fat and other pro-inflammatory foods promote inflammation, which may increase the risk of a variety of chronic diseases. The next logical step would be to use the DII (the Dietary Inflammatory Index) to predict CVD outcomes, such as atherosclerosis, and indicators of CVD including intimal thickening, plaque formation and cardiac output in the Asklepios Study.
And here is the follow up study they suggested:
Conclusions
To conclude, an anti-inflammatory diet may diminish the risk of CVD in healthy individuals but may be impossible to reverse the results of several years of exposure to oxidative stress among participants with established MetS (Metabolic Syndrome). Thus, the presented findings suggest that favoring anti-inflammatory diet at early stages of life could be found to act preventively as regards to the development of CVD and challenge us to evaluate potential antioxidant therapies that could be applied on public health action plans.
Bottom Line: Consuming a diet with low inflammatory potential and high anti-inflammatory ingredients shows real and significant protection against the two leading causes of death. Furthermore, other more recent studies with different interventional designs do show the possibility of overcoming the cumulative damage from Metabolic Syndrome, which is an inflammatory condition associated with high cardiovascular risk. The following links show how the whole-foods, unprocessed plant-based Mediterranean diet reduces Metabolic Syndrome and inflammation. It is never too late to eat right to beat disease!!
https://www.mdpi.com/2673-4540/6/1/4
https://dmsjournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13098-023-01052-7
“In this study, participants with MetS with adherence to high-quality and moderate-quality Mediterranean diet were significantly associated with lower all-cause mortality as well as cardiovascular mortality during the follow-up period. Furthermore, in joint analysis of the Mediterranean diet and sedentary behavior or depression, we found that high-quality or moderate-quality Mediterranean diet could attenuate, even reverse the adverse effects of sedentary behavior and depression on all-cause and cardiovascular mortality in participants with MetS. Among the components of the MED diet, greater intakes of vegetables, legumes, nuts and high MUFA/SFA (Mono-unsaturated fats like olive oil/Saturated Fats mostly animal based foods) ratio were significantly associated with lower all-cause mortality and greater vegetables intake was significantly associated with lower cardiovascular mortality, while more red/processed meat intake was significantly associated with higher cardiovascular mortality in participants with MetS.”
