I made a list that summarizes foods to avoid that have inflammatory effects. Hold on to your seat belts:
1. Foods fried in vegetable oil: Vegetable oil contains advanced glycation end product which causes inflammation.
2. Oils with Excess Omega 6: Omega 6 fatty acids as they break down transform into toxic prostaglandins and other proteins that promote inflammation.
3. Meat from Animals That Eat Grains: Animals that feed on grains need antibiotics to sustain them. These antibiotics in low levels in the human body can develop bacterial attacks on the network's lining more difficult for the immune system to eliminate. Also, the high content of saturated fatty acids in meat also causes inflammation due to their high levels of the triglycerides of palmitic and stearic acids. Again, the word "acids" is the key.
4. Highly Refined Flours: Due to the nature of their ingestion into the bloodstream, such flours cause a spike in insulin release which causes inflammation. Such flours contain Plasminogen activator inhibitor-1 (PAI-1) which promotes fibrosis.
5. Sugar: Produces cytokines which are a major inflammatory. Also, it induces a insulin spike which, like highly refine flour, produces inflammation.
6. Alcohol: The high content of sugar in alcohol is one of the main causes of inflammation. A major problem for alcohol is its role in the inflammation of the liver.
7. Dairy Products: The Lactose and Casein present in abundance in dairy products are not easily digested by most humans. These proteins can result in chronic inflammation.
8. Trans Fat: Any product--margarine--that has the description “hydrogenated” on them have trans fat in them. The tumor necrosis factor alpha and Interleukin 6 (IL-6) are the culprits. Both regulate the inflammation response through anti-inflammatory myokines and pro-inflammatory cytokine. When put out of balance, they result in inflammation.
9. Breads: Commercial bread is rushed through the fermentation process causing reduced levels of gluten and starch to be produced by the fermentation process. This causes problems in digestion which increases the inflammation of the gut. This inflammation, in my opinion, may also affect the circulatory system.
10. Processed Meats: The culprit is Advanced glycation end products (AGEs). A receptor (biochemistry) nicknamed RAGE, from receptor for advanced glycation end products, is found on many cells, including those in the circulatory system. activation of the nuclear factor kappa B (NF-κB) following AGE binding. NF-κB controls several genes which are involved in inflammation. The processing process of meats creates proteins or lipids that become glycated as a result of exposure to sugars. The pasteurization and drying processes of these meats cause AGEs to form.
11. Additives: Many of the ice creams and almost all the candies you eat have artificial additives in them. Since these ingredients are artificial, your body does not have a special function to digest them. Your body’s natural response to artificial coloring and other additives is to fight them, which results in inflammation.
12. Corn Syrup: Other names in product ingredients are High fructose corn syrup, Maize, dahlia syrup, and glucose syrup. The same effects of sugar in the insulin response creates inflammation.
13. Iodized Salt: The sodium in salt causes your blood’s volume to increase in a minute amount. When your blood expands, the veins expand--even in a minute amount--worsening any inflammation in the circulatory system.
14. Peanuts: The presence of molds on peanuts causes the body's immune system to respond to these allergens. This immune response causes inflammation.
15. Seitan: When wheat proteins undergoes an extreme texturizing process to create a non-animal meat substitute, that process creates Seitans (Wheat gluten). Seitans causes inflammation just like red meat.
16. Agave: A substitute for sugar. Agave has nearly double the amount of fructose in it than white sugar. The more agave you take, the more damage you do to your liver as well as inflammation to the circulatory system.
17. Packed Juices: The high temperature pasteurization process these juices undergo, kills even the good bacteria in the juice and its natural nutritional content. All you get is sugar. Sugar = inflammation from the insulin response.
Juices that have patulin in them indicate that poor quality fruits have been used to make them.
Juice with the label ‘no preservatives’ are the ones from which oxygen has been removed. This de-oxygenization process lowers the quality of the fruits and vegetables used to make them.
Because the juice no longer has the natural taste of the natural juice, artificial flavors (additives) and sugar are added, both of which are not good as explained above.
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The above list involves almost the entire food supply in the American diet. I found excellent sources for the above information which I have enjoyed sharing with my FRiends. As you can see, it is such an extensive list, it would be hard to create a diet that is without inflammatory ingredients. How science can minimize the inflammatory reaction in the circulatory system should be the direction we should go rather than sticking with the old science of avoidance.
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That’s it ... only thing left to eat that won’t kill me is Bugs!
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(Music and Indigenous African Yell) now “I Roar” up on the Cliff
Then I wake up and eat eggs fried in bacon grease with potatoes and a cup of coffee
Thank you.
The contemporary western adult diet is a mixture of many of these, 2 to 3 times a day. Almighty God must’ve created something inside the human digestive system to counteract the long term harm we could be doing to our bodies. Clearly a ‘fried’ everything diet with sodas and hard alcohol takes a toll on our well being.
My wife approves.
Excellent, informative post!!!
I’ve been enjoying a zero carb diet for 38 days now. I feel better today overall than when I was 20.
I used to love coconut anything & everything. I loved making popcorn in coconut oil.
I wouldn’t put either of them in my mouth now for love nor $$$.