Fighting Inflammation in a Nut Shell
Channel: NutritionFacts.org
Date: 2012-07-02

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DESCRIPTION: The equivalent of eating a single walnut half per day appeared to cut the risk of dying from inflammatory disease in about half, whereas fish did not appear to play a protective role. That may be why people eating vegetarian foods have lower levels of inflammation and chronic disease risk. This is the second of a three-part series on the latest discoveries about fighting inflammation with plant foods. See yesterday's video-of-the-day, Anti-Inflammatory Effects of Purple Potatoes (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/anti-inflammatory-effects-of-purple-potatoes/) for part one. Other recent videos on nuts include Eating Healthy on the Cheap (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/eating-healthy-on-the-cheap/), Harvard's Meat and Mortality Studies (http://nutritionfacts.org/blog/2012/03/15/harvards-meat-and-mortality-studies/), and Plant-Based Atkins Diet (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/plant-based-atkins-diet/). Unlike nuts, industrial pollutants present in fish oil supplements may even increase inflammation in the body—see Is Distilled Fish Oil Toxin-Free? (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/is-distilled-fish-oil-toxin-free/). The anti-inflammatory nature of plant foods may explain why those eating plant-based diets have less diabetes (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/preventing-macular-degeneration-with-diet/), fewer allergies (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/preventing-allergies-in-adulthood/), less heart disease (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/china-study-on-sudden-cardiac-death/), better moods (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/improving-mood-through-diet/), and fewer chronic diseases in general (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/say-no-to-drugs-by-saying-yes-to-more-plants/). There are over a hundred videos on plant-based diets alone (http://nutritionfacts.org/topics/plant-based-diets/), along with videos on a thousand other topics at http://nutritionfacts.org/topics/.

We know plant-based diets can help prevent inflammatory disease, but to see if plant-based diets can be used to treat it, you've got to put it to the test. Stay tuned for tomorrow's NutritionFacts.org video-of-the-day Achieving Remission of Crohn's Disease (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/achieving-remission-of-crohns-disease/).

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