Need An Anti Inflammation Diet?
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Read The Great Cholesterol Lie!

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 If you’re looking for a diet plan that will help your body deal with chronic illness, then an anti inflammation diet may be just what you need.

After reading “The Great Cholesterol Lie” ebook, I have one major complaint. It’s called “The Great Cholesterol Lie” because the author, Dr. Dwight Lundell, is a heart surgeon and he wrote it to teach people how to keep from getting heart disease. That’s all well and good, but the title doesn’t go far enough. This book isn’t just for people trying to prevent heart disease. It should be required reading for anyone trying to stay healthy in today’s world of junk food and popping pills for symptoms.

What The Great Cholesterol Lie is About

See, the whole premise behind this ebook is that cholesterol is not the enemy when it comes to heart disease. Nope, it’s inflammation. But inflammation isn’t just tied to heart disease.  In reality, it’s tied to almost every disease or condition out there in one way or another, including:

• Alzheimer’s
• Arthritis
• Cancer
• Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
• Diabetes Type 2
• Fibromyalgia
• Hypertension
• Impaired Immune Response
• Infections Following Wounds
• Liver Disease
• Pancreatitis
• Stroke

I could go on and on. The point is, chronic inflammation is a contributing factor to a whole lot of ailments.

You Need An Anti Inflammation Diet!

So why am I telling you all this on a health food blog?
Because good health food is a good anti inflammation diet!

“The Great Cholesterol Lie” ebook is full of information and ideas on how to change your lifestyle and get rid of the inflammation, and healthy eating is certainly a big part of that.

There are chapters explaining how the “eating a low fat diet is good for you” myth got started, and why inflammation is the culprit instead. The book explains exactly why the carbohydrate craze and low-fat diets are a problem.

The Whole Picture On How To Fight Inflammation

But low-fat diets aren’t the only problem. While learning to eat the right kind of fats is important, it’s also essential to know about the problems associated with too much sugar in your diet, and other factors that impact your health like smoking, hypertension, stress, obesity and vitamin deficiencies.

And just so you know all this isn’t all a figment of Dr. Lundell’s imagination. “The Great Cholesterol Lie” has a bunch of appendices full of studies showing how the wrong cause for heart disease was targeted. Instead of low-fat diets and statin drugs to control cholesterol, we need to be controlling the chronic inflammation so many of us are living with.

And once again, a big part of the answer is to change our diet.
Good health foods to the rescue!

If you’d like to read more about this ebook,

check out this information on “The Great Cholesterol Lie”.

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The Great Cholesterol Lie – Facts And Comments

We’re hearing more and more lately that inflammation in the body is the root cause of a whole lot of diseases.  While it may not seem that important, consider this – We are now raising the first generation of people in America that can not expect to live longer than their parents.

That ought to make us stop and think.  All these medical advances, and our kids aren’t going to live longer than we did?  What’s wrong here?

The modern diet in America, that’s what’s wrong.  Our diet largely consists of pro-inflammatory foods like sugar, refined flours, soda, and trans fats.  And people are getting larger and sicker every year because of that.

We’re eating a whole lot of stuff that isn’t whole foods, but engineered substances that parade as food.  They may taste good, but they do bad things to your body.  Advertising tempts us to eat this stuff, but we don’t have to eat chemicals to have food that tastes good!

Why Do We Need To Fight Inflammation?

 Eating pro-inflammatory foods puts our health at risk.  For instance, chronic inflammation is the actual cause of heart disease, not cholesterol (see “The Great Cholesterol Lie” for more information).  It’s associated with a whole lot of other diseases, too, such as:

• Crohn’s Disease
• Colitis
• Arthritis
• Metabolic Syndrome
• Diabetes Type 2
• Fibromyalgia
• Chronic Fatigue Syndrome

 Whether the root cause of a disease, or something that makes a disease worse, inflammation is bad news indeed!

 Good Health Food To The Rescue!

 One of the key ways to fight inflammation in your body is to eat good health food.  Whole foods, as close to their original state as possible.  Throw out the trans fats and eat healthy oils, like olive oil.  Quit eating so much sugar.

Every change you make in your diet to move away from eating overly processed and chemical laden foods to eat natural foods is a step in the right direction.

We need to fight inflammation in our bodies with good health food!

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Did You Know Good Health Food Is An Anti Inflammation Diet?

Yesterday being National Hazelnut Cake Day got me to thinking more about hazelnuts. Did you realize they are a really great super health food?

What Makes Them Healthy Hazelnuts?

Hazelnuts are a high-quality source of protein and fiber for starters. They also have a bunch of antioxidants such as vitamin E and many phytonutrients that help the immune system.

Not only that, but of all the tree nuts, hazelnuts have the highest concentration of folate. Why is that so great?

Well, folate is a water soluble B vitamin that is especially important during periods of rapid cell division and growth. For instance, it reduces the risk of neural tube birth defects.

In addition, both children and adults require folic acid to produce healthy red blood cells and prevent anemia. Folate is also thought to help reduce the risk of cardiovascular disease, certain cancers, depression, and Alzheimer’s disease.  That makes them healthy hazelnuts indeed!

A Hazelnut By Any Other Name

Hazelnuts are also known as filberts, which is actually the correct name for the tree and nut. It’s of French origin and the tree was likely first introduced into the US by early French settlers.

However, hazelnut is the name coined by the English and it was applied to the native species by early settlers.  Nowadays, hazelnut is more commonly used term for these nuts.

The How And Where Of Hazelnut Growth

Hazelnuts are shaped a lot like acorns and grow on bushy trees.  The main producers of hazelnuts are France, Spain, Turkey and Italy.  In the United States, most hazelnuts are grown in Oregon and Washington.

They’ve been a food source for a long time, and are thought to have originated in Asia. There are Chinese manuscripts from 5,000 years ago that refer to the healthy hazelnut as a sacred food from heaven.

They have a rich flavor and work well in baked goods. Hazelnuts are also one of the main ingredients in Nutella spread, besides making hazelnut butter, meal, flour, paste and oil.

Heavenly Hazelnuts Are Healthy Hazelnuts

Besides being a great tasting food, hazelnuts have great health benefits.

• Hazelnut oil was used in ancient times to help quiet chronic coughs.
• Used externally, hazelnut oil is also thought to help rid the skin of cellulite.
• Hazelnuts are a rich source of the amino acid arginine that relaxes blood vessels.
• Eating hazelnuts have been found to help lower cholesterol levels, as they contain nearly 75 percent mono-unsaturated fat and less than 4 percent saturated fat.
• Hazelnuts have the highest proanthocyanidin content of any tree nut. These compounds may help reduce the risk of blood clotting and urinary tract infections.

The Many Ways To Enjoy Hazelnuts

There are many ways to incorporate hazelnuts into your diet. You can snack on the whole or cracked nuts.  Along with diced nuts, they can be used in baked goods, entrees, salads, soups, cereals, bars, toppings, and even dairy products.

Hazelnut meal is finely ground and free flowing. It can be used to replace flour in baked goods, fillings and sauces, and even in ice cream. It’s especially good to use to make low carb foods, and is of course, excellent for use in health foods!

Even More Ways To Enjoy Healthy Hazelnut Benefits!

Hazelnut butter is similar to natural peanut butter, being made of finely ground hazelnuts and unsweetened. Not only does it add a special flavor, it adds protein to replace some carbohydrates, making it also good for low carb and health foods. An interesting side effect of using hazelnut butter with recipes containing chocolate is that it lowers the melting point of chocolate and makes the texture creamier.

Hazelnut paste is much the same as hazelnut butter, only besides the finely ground hazelnuts, it also has sugar added. It’s spreadable, but grainy. It is often used in bakery icings and fillings, confectionery, and dairy products.

Healthy Hazelnuts Add Pizazz To Your Diet!

A great tasting nut with a lot of uses, hazelnuts are also full of nutrients that are great for your body. They’re a champion on the Superfoods list!  You can’t go wrong with hazelnuts!

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Go Nuts For Healthy Hazelnuts!