Causes of Inflammation

• Standard Western food program
• Refined sugars, white flour products
• Commercial meat products, excess meat consumption
• Omega-6 oils (animal fats, corn, and soy, safflower, canola, low-quality oils)
• Commercial dairy products, especially cow milk products
• Eggs from commercially-raised chickens
• Persistent emotional upset or lingering negative thought patterns
• Too little exercise or too much exercise
• Smoking, environmental toxicity, poisons

Reduces Inflammation

• Plant-based food program, Mediterranean diet, traditional Indian -and Asian diets
• Whole grains
• Olive oil, flaxseed oil, walnut oil, coconut oil, and fatty cold-water fish
• Grass-fed animal milk products; goat
• Organically raised hens
• Lightheartedness, contentment, joy, and laughter
• Moderate exercise daily for 30 – 45 minutes
• Clean and peaceful environment

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