Body Inflammation Caused By Nutritional Deficiencies: Are You at Risk?

Would you be surprised to learn that body inflammation caused by your lifestyle and the foods you eat are a big health risk?

Studies show most Westerners are eating far to much of the wrong kinds of foods leading to chronic inflammation. If you've followed any of the health news, you probably know chronic inflammation is the leading cause of today's deadly diseases.

Doctors link heart disease, diabetes, rheumatoid arthritis and Alzheimer's to ongoing inflammation.

The problem is that inflammation is caused by chemical cascades in your body that react to protect you from infection. And you need this. It's how your body heals if you cut yourself or get a cold. The problem is when your body doesn't recognize the danger is over and continues to keep your body inflamed. This constant inflammation creates havoc within your immune system.

Think of it like this. If you're driving a car and you need to get up a hill, you may keep your foot pressed a little harder on the gas pedal to power you up the incline. But once the road levels off again, you're going to shoot fast down the highway if you don't let up on the gas.

That's kind of what inflammation is like in your body, but it just doesn't let up. Today's diet, environment and constant stress creates lots of inflammation.

Here's what you can do about it:

1-Get enough rest-when you're tired, it makes you more stressed and reduces your immune system even further.

2-Get lots of antioxidants-these nutrients reduce the amount of free radicals in your environment and these destroy your healthy cells. You can eat more fruits and vegetables to get the antioxidants you need.

3-Eat more fish-Fish is rich in omega 3 fatty acids. It's these "good" fats found in fish oil that studies find reduce inflammation naturally.

In fact, regions where the people eat a lot of fish-think Japan or Alaska-have fewer rates of heart disease and Alzheimer's than where we don't eat much fish. In fact, some doctors say as many as 80% of Americans are deficient in these important nutrients.

That's worth considering since Harvard linked a deficiency in omega 3 fatty acids to the premature deaths of 63,000-100,000 Americans a year.

So now that you know body inflammation is caused by stress, environment and lack of proper nutrition, what are you going to do about? Learn how to protect your health with omega 3 fatty acids.

 

Source : Enzine