The Inflammation Free Diet Plan

experts, from diet doctor Barry Sears (The Zone) to alternative medicine guru Andrew Weil (Healthy Aging) recommend an anti-inflammatory diet for everything from weight loss to heart disease prevention.

Hay fever, heart disease, depression, and diabetes…four very different conditions with one common denominator: Inflammation is at the root of all four.

The IF Rating system tends to favor foods that are low in sugar, rich in vitamins, lower in saturated fat and higher in healthy fats. Lean protein, fruits and vegetables, cold water fish, and whole grains are naturally emphasized, while highly-processed foods, trans fats, and empty calories are minimized.
http://www.inflammationfactor.com/

I asked our friend, the orthopedic surgeon about this. His reply:

With respect to your question on the antiinflammatory
diet, I read the material in the web site you listed. The only so called anti-inflammatory effect from diet referred to in their research was one showing an increased level of C-reactive protein, a very rough guide to “inflammation” in the blood, on the Atkings diet and a diet that lowered CRP with high fiber, and that diet may not be a very practical one. Even with these two studies, there is no connection made to arthritis, ulcers and other so-called
inflammatory diseases. The rest of the references were really just fluff as far as making any connection with a specific diet program and a medical condition that might stand peer review.

I went to Medline which a reference source of all medically based and peer reviewed research published. I entered anti inflammatory diet and there are only some studies,
actually a meta analysis of all published studies, connected to treatment of regional ileities, an inflammatory disease of the small intestine, and even here the studies showed no
effect.

I think the evidence now is that a balanced healthy diet as we all know as desirable is just that but having any effect on what are listed as inflammatory disease including arthritis, Altzheimers, and so forth is lacking.

Back to the drawingboard…