Heart disease, cancer, Alzheimer’s disease, the metabolic syndrome, physical disability. That’s just a partial list of the illnesses that have been linked to chronic inflammation.
“It’s different from the classic, red, swelling, white-cell kind of inflammation that we’re used to thinking of,” explains Walter Willett, chair of the Nutrition Department at the Harvard School of Public Health.
Instead, it’s more of a slow burn that’s detected only by a rise in inflammatory signals, or markers—proteins produced by the immune system to fight infection or heal an injury (though not the kind of injury you can necessarily see or feel). The question is: how can you douse the flames?
So far, only one thing is clear, says Willett. “The most powerful way to reduce your inflammatory factors is to lose excess weight.”Source:cspinet.com
