It’s no secret that proper nutrition is a key factor in optimal health and fat loss. The diet industry puts a lot of focus on calories and portion sizes, but this is just a small piece of a proper nutritional approach.
Before calories start getting slashed it’s important to remove foods that cause inflammation.
Inflammation is the body’s immune, stress response to irritation or damage. We most definitely need this immune response within our body, but it’s only beneficial for a short period of time. Say you cut your finger, the immune system will send healing fluids and white blood cells to the site for repair and create swelling/inflammation of the tissue due to this response. Within a few days to a week, depending on the damage, this inflammation will subside, as healing occurs.
Now let’s say you are eating foods that are irritating to the gut lining or systems in general. This irritation will cause an immune response and inflammation of the tissues to promote healing, much like the finger cut example. With this example of food, if the irritation factor is consistently consumed and not removed, the inflammation will stay chronic. Chronic inflammation is the #1 factor in disease promotion and stubborn weight loss.
Remember, inflammation is a stress response and if the body is chronically under stress its main concern is not fat loss or operating in a vital state. The body is focused on healing.
There are 5 food groups that cause the biggest inflammation within the body. we call these THE FURIOUS 5. In fact, most people will start to see the scale go down, energy go up and digestive relief by just removing these 5 food groups from their diet, without any other intervention.
Listen into this episode to learn about the FURIOUS 5 (gluten, corn, dairy, soy & sugar), their unique, negative impacts on the body and how to start removing these inflammatory makers.
You can’t out diet inflammation and disease cannot exist without inflammation.
