With these powerhouses chronic inflammation doesn't stand a chance.
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Dietitians' Top 5 Anti-Inflammatory Foods
Karen Ansel MS RDN is a nutrition journalist and author. In her 20+ years of experience she has written hundreds of health-oriented articles on food nutrition fitness and wellness. Her work has appeared in EatingWell Women's Health Weight Watchers Men's Health Shape Woman's Day Prevention Fitbit and other publications and websites.
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Broken bones Dementia Heart disease Diabetes and cancer may not seem like they have much in common. But they all have one common link and that’s inflammation. Inflammation is the immune system’s way of repairing damage from an injury or disease according to the National Institutes of Health. In the short term that’s a good thing. In the long term not so much. “When inflammation becomes chronic — from things like eating unhealthy foods smoking drinking too much alcohol or being sedentary — those same defenses go into overdrive and damage cells and tissues causing permanent damage” says Joan Salge Blake Ed.D. RDN a professor of clinical nutrition at Boston University and host of SpotOn! a podcast about nutrition and health. “For example chronic inflammation can damage the walls of blood vessels paving the way for atherosclerosis and that nasty plaque buildup that leads to heart disease.”
