Foods that are good for managing chronic inflammation

Chronic inflammation in your body can be managed with food from your fridge instead of medication! 🍅🧅

 

🤔 Chronic Inflammation: Why Is It a Problem?

 

Unlike acute inflammation, chronic inflammation progresses quietly without noticeable symptoms. It begins when inflammatory proteins accumulate gradually due to factors such as fine dust, high blood sugar, and stress. This inflammation travels throughout the body through the blood vessels, damaging cells and causing aging and deformation. Ultimately, it can increase the risk of metabolic diseases such as obesity and diabetes, skin diseases, autoimmune diseases, and even cancer. Visceral fat, in particular, is a major culprit that worsens inflammation by secreting inflammatory substances called adipokines. Fatty substances in high-calorie foods and advanced glycation end products (AGEs) produced after consuming high-fructose corn syrup also trigger inflammation.

 

✨ Foods that are good for managing chronic inflammation

 

There are many foods that help reduce inflammation.

 

vegetable : Onions, garlic, tomatoes, carrots, cabbage, spinach, mushrooms, etc. 🥦

Spices & Herbs : Turmeric, pepper, cinnamon, coriander, mint, etc. 🌿

fruit : Apples, persimmons, watermelon, tangerines, strawberries, etc. 🍓

Nuts & Seeds 🥜

Omega-3 rich foods : Blue fish, flax seeds, perilla seeds, etc. 🐟

Other: Coffee, Green Tea ☕🍵

🥇 Top Foods for Inflammation Management: Tomatoes

 

The key ingredient in tomatoes is lycopene. Lycopene, a powerful antioxidant, is excellent at eliminating free radicals, promoting healthy cells, and reducing chronic inflammation.

 

Consumption Tips Lycopene is abundant in the peel, so eat it with the peel! While the absorption rate is low (about 4%) when eaten raw, cooking it with oil increases the absorption rate of fat-soluble lycopene. We recommend cooking it with olive oil.

Additional benefits : It promotes prostate health (study on prostate cancer prevention effect), helps excrete toxic substances when breaking down alcohol, is rich in vitamin K (prevents osteoporosis and dementia), vitamin C (improves skin elasticity and prevents freckles), and potassium (excretes sodium and prevents high blood pressure).

🤝 A perfect match for tomatoes: onions

 

Onions are good for blood vessel health, so much so that they are called 'blood vessel cleaners'.

 

Quercetin: It prevents damage to blood vessel walls, lowers bad LDL cholesterol, and raises good HDL cholesterol. It's heat-resistant, so it's safe to bake or boil.

Allyl sulfide (Allicin): Onions, with their unique spicy properties, help reduce chronic inflammation and boost immunity. However, they are sensitive to heat (destroyed at temperatures above 70℃), so eating them raw or slicing them and leaving them at room temperature for 15-30 minutes will reduce the spiciness while preserving their nutritional value.

 

Tomatoes and onions work together in salads, sandwiches, soups, stews, and even as a seasoning for noodles, for a delicious and healthy combination! 👍