This thread is for recipes that fit the Anti-Inflammatory Eating Plan. As many of you know, this is a diet that involves the elimination of the most common allergenic or inflammatory foods. This plan encourages a whole foods diet full of vegetables, legumes, healthy meats, non-gluten grains, beneficial spices, nourishing fats and clear, clean water. This diet promotes healthy blood-sugar balance, decreases cardiovascular inflammation, can act as an elimination diet to ascertain specific food allergies or intolerances. Following an Anti-Inflammatory diet can often alleviate joint pain, promote improved digestion, decrease auto-immune disease flares, improve hormone balance and more. As we learn which foods nourish our individual systems, we can make choices daily to promote vital health. There is a handout on the website elucidating the specific details of an anti-inflammatory diet.
Eating in this way can often be challenging at first and having some proven recipes to work with can make the process much more enjoyable. Whether you are using the anti-inflammation diet as an elimination diet with the intention of reintroducing foods in 6-8 weeks, or as a long-term plan to promote your health, the recipes should make shopping, cooking and eating more enjoyable!
With that, bon appetit.
Thursday, March 4, 2010
Welcome!
I am very excited about the opportunity for patients and friends alike to use this blog as a resource for sharing ideas, thoughts, recipes, and musings on health. Many of you have been learning healthy ways of living for days, months or years and along the way have found tried and true recipes, have come across a quote that inspired you on your healing journey or have been surprised or educated by a piece of new research on health and wellness.
This site is your opportunity to share your thoughts. For many patients, learning to cook and eat in a new way, learning to approach food, exercise or meditation from a new perspective can be incredibly challenging. It is daunting to be given a diet that appears to eliminate all of the foods normally eaten in any given day. Grocery shopping can seem completely foreign; tackling that gluten-free bread recipe almost impossible.
My goal for this forum is to make all of this a little easier through sharing resources, experiments, and encouragement. Unfortunately, in our current society, choosing a healthy lifestyle is not necessarily the easy path, but the benefits to our everyday well-being as well as our long term survival are profound.
So, I invite you to join me in sharing your successes, your humor, and your struggles on your own path to wellness, for it is certain that what has inspired you or worked well in you or your family's life will also benefit others. For, it is in giving and sharing that we truly are blessed.
I welcome suggestions on how to make this resource work for each of you.
In health,
Dr Amy
This site is your opportunity to share your thoughts. For many patients, learning to cook and eat in a new way, learning to approach food, exercise or meditation from a new perspective can be incredibly challenging. It is daunting to be given a diet that appears to eliminate all of the foods normally eaten in any given day. Grocery shopping can seem completely foreign; tackling that gluten-free bread recipe almost impossible.
My goal for this forum is to make all of this a little easier through sharing resources, experiments, and encouragement. Unfortunately, in our current society, choosing a healthy lifestyle is not necessarily the easy path, but the benefits to our everyday well-being as well as our long term survival are profound.
So, I invite you to join me in sharing your successes, your humor, and your struggles on your own path to wellness, for it is certain that what has inspired you or worked well in you or your family's life will also benefit others. For, it is in giving and sharing that we truly are blessed.
I welcome suggestions on how to make this resource work for each of you.
In health,
Dr Amy
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