Health News Update: Vegetable Intake Lowers Inflammation
Hello again everyone:
As you know, inflammation causes, aggravates, and/or perpetuates all chronic conditions. Another way to say this is that inflammation is the final common pathway of environmental stress…what we eat, what we are exposed to, what we think, and what we do (exercise etc.) can either create health or a lack of health (inflammation). There is a lot of good research that reveals vegetables can reduce inflammation, therefore, going into a whole foods plant-based food plan has many advantages:
Conclusions: This study suggests that the previously observed health benefits of cruciferous vegetable consumption may be partly associated with the anti-inflammatory effects of these vegetables.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/24630682/
Conclusion: Study results show that the beneficial effects of fruit and vegetable intake on markers of inflammation and oxidative stress are already present by early adolescence and provide support for the Dietary Guidelines for Americans "to consume five or more servings per day" of fruits and vegetables to promote beneficial cardiovascular health.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/19248856/
Conclusions: This study suggests that soy food consumption is related to lower circulating levels of IL-6, TNFα, and soluble TNF receptors 1 and 2 (markers of inflammation) in Chinese women.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/22889631/
“Epidemiology studies indicate that diet or specific dietary components can reduce the risk for cancer, cardiovascular disease and diabetes. An underlying cause of these diseases is chronic inflammation. Dietary components that are beneficial against disease seem to have multiple mechanisms of action and many also have a common mechanism of reducing inflammation, often via the NFkB pathway. Thus, a plant-based diet can contain many components that reduce inflammation and can reduce the risk for developing all three of these chronic diseases.”
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/24944766/
Bottom Line:
Go whole food plant based. Ditch the sugar, bad fats, additives, preservatives, processing, fried, nutrient deprived food like objects and opt for real food that your biology craves and protect your health. To eat any other way is way too risky.
