Eat to avoid inflammation.

Lyn Genet’s The Plan and other anti-inflammatory diets work by eating specifically with the goal of lowering chronic low grade inflammation. When the low grade inflammatory response is lessened everything falls into place- health, vitality and optimal weight. This month, the focus of our blog is to teach you some simple tricks to identify your hidden trigger foods that are causing weight gain, bloating  and inflammation, among other symptoms. 

There are 4 basic variables for weight gain/bloating:

1. not enough water,

2. eating too much sodium,

3. eating the wrong chemical combinations

4. eating foods you are reactive to.

When you eliminate foods that are reactive you can stop strictly focusing on calories-in, calories-out because your body is no longer having histamine/inflammatory responses which retard digestion and causes you to put on anywhere from .5 to 2 lbs in inflammatory response. The inflammatory response is NOT water weight. Water weight can be reversed within 24 hrs. Reactive response can easily stay 3 days and causes more than just weight gain-it kick starts whatever our latent health issues are as well as digestive issues (such as constipation, acid reflux, IBS etc).