Today’s weekly tip is all about anti-inflammatory foods, but I’m not a nutritionist so I’m not going to be telling you what you need to eat but more so to stay with this month’s theme of allergies. keeping your inflammation down is a key component to keep allergies at bay. If you haven’t watched last week’s video watch it here ==>> “How to get around allergies“
Your Inflammatory Response
What I am going to talk to you about is anti-inflammatory foods, people only think about inflammation when they’re in trouble or in pain. You want to make eating these foods part of your daily routine. Inflammation is always there. It’s always going on at some level because the inflammatory response is a natural process within your body. It doesn’t happen only when you injure yourself. That’s the common mistake. Everyone thinks, ‘I’m inflamed because I ate some food that I knew I should not have, or I injured myself. It happens all the time.
Eating Anit-Inflammatory Foods
Eating anti-inflammatory foods on a regular basis helps to bring all that inflammation. So, when you do hurt yourself or you eat something that inflames you, it’s not as bad. Your inflammation response doesn’t hit that tipping point where your body starts shutting things down. That’s what we have to focus on this week.
We have to focus on bringing in more of these foods into our daily diet. I found this image online, on Dr. Weil’s website, he is a good person to follow for alternative medicine. Begin integrating some of these foods into your everyday life. The way that I do it is through smoothies. I do green shakes, consistently, as much as I possibly can.
As you start regularly eating more greens, the bitter taste that everyone hates at first actually becomes something that’s enjoyable because your craving and intake of sugar start to drop. And you start liking the non-sugary taste rather than being repulsed by it. Your body was pre-programmed to looking for sugar. Focusing on the fact that you need to keep the inflammatory response down and eating these foods regularly is important.
A few of the anti-inflammatory foods I love…
Alfalfa. I do alfalfa in pill form, it’s hard to find it in the northeast during the winter, so I get the inflammation lowering benefits in pill form. I do a lot of almond butter. I do a lot of kale, lettuces, spinach, and eggplant. Cilantro’s very good. Coconut oil, that’s my hidden secret weapon. I put coconut oil on my Ezekiel bread. Celery is amazing. I also love garlic, ginger, turmeric, manuka honey, apple cider vinegar, beets, broccoli, chia seeds, flax seeds, walnuts, berries, pineapple and our latest kick – bone broth!
Take a list and just start chopping it up and begin eating foods throughout your day here, throughout your day there, and set it and forget it. Don’t ever stop. This needs to be a routine for your body and your body’s going to thank you for it.
This week’s tip is all about, anti-inflammatory food, but not what to eat but making it into a routine for your everyday life. When something does happen, it doesn’t hit that tipping point.
If this tip helped you, spread the love. People that need to live active life always are inflamed. So a link to this blog. Until next time, folks.
Your turn now! Do you have some favorite anit-inflammatory go-to foods? Let me know. Leave a comment below!
