Zap Inflammation, Heart Disease Risk With Yellow Vegetables
Diet plays a crucial role in causing inflammation and offers delicious ways to reverse it
Certain diets have been shown to increase inflammation in your body, which then sets the stage for heart disease and stroke later in life. Yet there are also diets that can save the day, including those rich in yellow vegetables, red wine, and coffee, according to research published in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology in November 2020
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Chronic inflammation has been shown to play a role in the development of heart disease and stroke as well as insulin resistance and Type 2 diabetes.
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Dietary interventions may help in the overall management of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), but caution is required when interpreting the available data on this, according to Peter Gibson, MD, of Monash University in Melbourne, Australia. This is a very exciting area because there has been a profusion of recent publications on diet and IBD, he said at the Advances in Inflammatory Bowel Diseases virtual meeting.
An important question that researchers have been exploring is whether diet can be used to influence disease activity and lessen inflammation. The use of exclusive enteral nutrition has told us that this is very much the case you can reduce inflammation and induce mucosal healing with exclusive enteral nutrition, he said. But can it be done with real food? he asked.