Diet to reduce Inflammation?

I don't know about the kind of inflamation you describe, but you may want to do some reading about ginger.  I've been drinking fresh squeezed juice regularly for a year now and last august I started adding a slice of ginger to the mix.  Prior to that time my left hip frequently had a dull ache.  First I worried it was bone mets, but more realistically, it was probably the beginning of arthritis.  Probably won't ever know because that hip doesn't hurt anymore.  I juice 1-2 times a day and the slice of ginger is probably 1/4" thick. 

Dr. Andrew Weil is big on the anti-inflammatory diet stuff.  I think I originally read about it in his book "Healthy Aging", but he has info on his website about it here.

Well, I believe it, as I changed my health when I changed my diet and started eating clean...whicch means I cut out all the white crap! 

But we are all entitled to our opinions.  I would suggest you do your own reserach and decide for yourself! 

I can recommend a good book for you to look into.  It's not about cancer... it's about health through eating.  It's called "Super Foods" by Steven Pratt, MD.  It identifies 14 foods that should be in our diets and why.  There is a lot of info on anti-inflammatory foods.

I have gone months and months eating superhealthy and then months where I fall off the wagon.  I believe in holistic and mainstream medicine but I have to say, I had my best scan in two years (I've been Stage IV for over five years) and during the four months prior to that scan, I ate every unhealthy thing in the book.  And this great scan was the second one in a row so it is not a total fluke (I am on Tamoxifen)..

It's so hard to know what the right thing is... there seems to be evidence to support any theory!!  Good luck with your quest.

Robin

There's a great website that gives you a comprehensive listing of all the nutrients in food.  You can even plug in your own recipes and view the nutrients.  It also will tell you the glycemic level of the food and the anti-inflammatory rating.  www.nutritiondata.com   Check out the anti-inflammatory factor for salmon and broccoli and flax oil.  You can even do a nutrient search. You can plug in everything you eat in a day and it will total up all the nutrients.

jan

The Mediterranean diet has been scientifically proven to reduce inflammation in a wide variety of conditions. Most studies use levels of C-reactive protein (CRP) as part of their measure, in addition to other more subjective measures of symptoms. I know the literature regarding rheumatoid arthritis best, and the diet does make a significant difference in that condition. I have experienced the improvement myself.

Sometimes it can be hard for us to tell as individuals, especially with conditions in which the norm is to become progressively worse over time. Only in the context of a group, compared to another control group that is also growing progressively worse, can one see the difference - i.e., the group receiving the intervention doesn't get as much worse s the control group over the course of the study. So even if you experience your condition getting worse while following the diet or whatever, it may well have actually prevented you from getting even worse than you otherwise would have without it. Just a possibility.

And a confluence of studies conclude that more fruits and vegetables, cold water fish, nuts and seeds, and less meat and sugar/refined white flour reduces inflammation. I think it makes perfect sense, in that our bodies evolved for thousands of years eating those items, and do pretty well on them. 

I don't see anyone making a big profit from recommending broad dietary changes to people, certainly not the kind of profit made from testing drug interventions, so I am more likely to respect the results. I'm sure there are some exceptions, perhaps with food industry sponsored studies, but by and large the people doing research into the Mediterranean diet have been free of such conflicts of interest from what I have seen. It's actually a small world, and not that many people are involved in these things. There is research that appears trustworthy, and some not.

i take lots of plain yogurt, i make my own. also adequate rest and sleep is important.