In this chapter I want to share with you a new area of health research:
the role of inflammation on healthy weight loss. Although my special
focus is going to be on inflammation, I will also be telling you about
your fat-burning processes, and the best way for you to avoid certain
problems in these areas.
What is Inflammation?
We hear a lot about inflammation these days and how it contributes
to health conditions such as cardiovascular disease and arthritis.
Before I discuss the link between inflammation and weight management,
I wanted to first explain what inflammation is.
Inflammation is actually a natural biological response that occurs in
the body. Inflammation, in general, is not bad and we don’t want to
stop the entirety of inflammatory mechanisms in our body if we want
to promote good health. What we want to do is control inflammation
and not have excess inflammation occurring in our body. It is
imbalanced inflammation that can propagate health conditions and
related symptoms as well as that which plays a role in weight
management.
Reducing Fat Storage Cells and Controlling
Inflammation
The study of fat cells and their role in health has produced some
great surprises in the past 10 years, including the knowledge that fat
cells are anything but inactive storage spots for fat. We are used to
thinking of our body fat as “just sitting there,” placing extra weight
CHAPTER 10
World’s Healthiest Foods
Reduce Inflammation
Healthy Weight Loss — Without Dieting