Control Inflammation from the inside out by reducing this one thing in your diet.

If you just have carbs, just cereal, just pancakes, just waffles. Not only are you going to be hungry really soon after you eat you're also going to get a sugar crash, and you're going to be irritable and angry.

What does it mean to eat healthy? Everyone has a slightly or very different meaning for eating healthy. To me eating healthy means having a balanced intake of carbohydrates, fats, proteints, limiting processed foods and replacing with eating and cooking whole foods from fresh fruits and vegetables, chicken, fish and other meats, limiting or eliminating refined sugar, avoiding foods you are allergic or sensitive to and adding supplements only when there has been testing to indicate there is a need due to reduced absorption due to any reason including certain diseases of the body.

An apple for an afternoon snack, although it is healthy, it doesn’t give a balanced snack so you aren’t going to have the energy for that afternoon walk or run. Have your snack be well balanced with protein, fats and carbohydrates to have the energy you need. A good way to change this snack into a better snack is add peanut butter to the apple and mix in some protein powder into the peanut butter.

Your pills may not be working for you because you’ve built up a tolerance to them and you need a higher dosage to have the same effect. Maybe you’re taking the wrong pills. If you’re taking acetaminophen, Tylenol or other medications that aren’t anti-inflammatory for an anti-inflammatory effect. The medications you take may address pain but if the underlying root cause is inflammation, those medications are only going to dull the pain. What’s the best thing to do instead? You can be proactive instead of reactive and eat foods and drink beverages that facilitate the anti-inflammatory effect in your body to decrease inflammation without pills at all.

Not everyone needs to go gluten free. Someone who has Celiac disease, a gluten allergy or gluten sensitivity should go gluten free. Going gluten free for someone with these diagnoses can help reduce inflammation which can help reduce pain. You likely also need an exercise routine for strength, flexibility and balance.

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