Anti-Inflammatory Diets: An Antidote to Chronic Illness?

Examining the link between food and disease

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What’s a common thread that might connect chronic conditions like cancer, diabetes, heart disease, rheumatoid arthritis, depression, and maybe even Alzheimer’s disease? If you guessed inflammation, you were correct. The inflammatory response is the body’s natural defensive immune reaction to infection (such as from a cold virus or other foreign invader) or injury (like a […]