Health News Update: Dietary Patterns and Inflammation Really Matter
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Health News Update: Dietary Patterns and Inflammation Really Matter 2.2.26
Hey there everyone: The literature has a pretty large amount of data showing what diets are inflammatory and which are anti-inflammatory…but what happens when you consume the anti-inflammatory food plan for multiple years?
Abstract: The intervention with the Mediterranean diet (MD) pattern has evidenced short-term anti-inflammatory effects, but little is known about its long-term anti-inflammatory properties at molecular level. This study aims to investigate the 3-year effect of MD interventions compared to low-fat diet (LFD) on changes on inflammatory biomarkers related to atherosclerosis in a free- living population with a high-risk of cardiovascular disease (CD).
Conclusions: MD seems to reduce inflammatory processes at different molecular levels and avoid changes in gene expression related to atherosclerosis, exerting an immunomodulatory and anti-inflammatory effect upon the different pathways involved in inflammation. This study supports the implementation of MD as a healthy long-term dietary pattern in the prevention of CD in populations at high cardiovascular risk.
https://www.academia.edu/77601488/The_3_Year_Effect_of_the_Mediterranean_Diet_Intervention_on_Inflammatory_Biomarkers_Related_to_Cardiovascular_Disease?email_work_card=view-paper Med Diet Lowers Disease Risk
Bottom Line:
What you eat really, really matters. To be your best, to expand both your healthspan and lifespan, requires a sound and health promoting food plan. An unprocessed, whole foods, predominantly plant-based food plan (the Mediterranean Diet and it’s more modern evolution into the Green Med Diet) is the way to go.
I sincerely hope that you don’t wait for a warning shot or wake up call to make these upgrades. While this paper highlights cardiovascular disease (CD), it is well known that lowering your risk for CD also confers a lowered risk for all other chronic illnesses, from cancer to dementia. Thus, the benefits go far beyond prevention and include wellness and a safer future. Investing in your food choices can return unbelievable dividends. In other words, you can lower your risk of disease from many causes simultaneously. Wow!
