Health News Update: Food Choices, Inflammation, and Death
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Health News Update: Food Choices, Inflammation, and Death 12.8.25
Hello everyone: There are many quotations about food choices and health, and some are so right on, such as this one from Hippocrates: “The wise person should consider that health is the greatest of human blessings. Let food be your medicine.” What does today’s science say about food and health?
“Hypercaloric and highly processed diets, poor in antioxidant foods leads to a supra-physiological postprandial state characterized by plasmatic peaks of glucose and lipids. This leads to a mitochondrial metabolic overload in the muscular and adipose tissues, resulting in the formation of free radicals - like the superoxide anion - and, consequently, to pro-inflammatory alterations and endothelial dysfunction [2].
Adopting a diet with adequate caloric intake, rich in fibers, fruits and vegetables associated to a balanced ingestion of macronutrients is a valuable non-pharmacologic strategy in reestablishing the balance between pro- and anti-inflammatory factors and processes for managing and preventing obesity, diabetes and cardiovascular disease.”
Bottom Line: If you have read any of my blog posts then you know that I will frequently say that inflammation will cause, perpetuate, and/or aggravate every known human ailment. And it turns out that a major driver of inflammation is what we choose to eat. For example, the Green Mediterranean diet is not only delicious, but also anti-inflammatory. If you have ANY type of chronic health issue, or you simply want to age in the most optimal/healthy way, it is absolutely critical to make sure your food plan supports your biochemistry to put out the fires of inflammation. Because all of our biochemistry is dependent upon nutrients that we get from our daily food intake, from detox to repair to memory to you name it, it becomes apparent that food is foundational and can have positive or negative effects on every part of our health. Go into an unprocessed, whole foods, plant-based plan 100% for 4 to 6 months and see how your system responds…it is often miraculous what our body can do. Here is some more info to encourage your personal transformation.
“The accumulation of body fat (especially on the abdomen) secondary to an excessive caloric intake negatively modulates the whole inflammatory state. However, increased inflammatory markers levels are seen acutely after an episode of high energetic intake in a single meal; the same happens after a chronic imbalance on specific nutrients ingestion, even in non- overweight persons. This suggests that diet patterns play an independent role in inflammatory modulation [1].”
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