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Published:
June 16, 2025

Anti-Inflammatory Diet For Dummies

Overview

Practical tips and recipes for avoiding chronic inflammation and maintaining your long-term health

Anti-Inflammatory Diet For Dummies equips you with the latest information on how to avoid chronic inflammation and reduce your risk of associated health conditions. Inflammation is linked to arthritis, stroke, cancer, obesity, and beyond. You can keep inflammation under control by focusing on foods and lifestyle factors that have been shown to help. This accessible and straightforward guide explains how it all works, and offers over 100 tasty and nourishing recipes that can have a real impact on your health—today and into the future. Updated with the latest research and an expanded focus on gut health, this new edition gives you what you need to keep inflammation in check.

  • Find out what causes inflammation, and how reducing inflammation can keep you healthy
  • Discover the basic anti-inflammatory ingredients and great recipes that keep inflammation down
  • Learn what the latest science is saying about inflammation and conditions like breast cancer, Alzheimer's, and dementia
  • Get relief from inflammatory symptoms and keep chronic disease at bay

It's never too early or too late to start shifting to an anti-inflammatory diet and improving your long-term health. Anti-Inflammatory Diet For Dummies makes it easy.

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About The Author

Dr. Artemis Morris is a leading expert on anti-inflammatory nutrition, an internationally recognized educator in integrative medicine, and the medical director of Artemis Wellness Center.

Molly Rossiter is an award-winning writer who covers new research in science and self-improvement. She has more than 34 years of news and feature writing experience.

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Choosing an anti-inflammation diet is one way to control inflammation in your body. For anyone living with chronic inflammation, finding a way to decrease symptoms and, if possible, erase the “bad” inflammation altogether, is a blessing. In many cases, living with inflammation doesn’t have to be permanent — you can treat, prevent, and sometimes even eradicate those inflammatory issues by knowing which foods are triggers for you, which foods are bad for everyone, and how to change your diet accordingly.

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Changing your diet to include anti-inflammatory foods, spices, herbs, and beverages is the first and most important step in the battle against inflammation and chronic disease. Getting a lot of good exercise — both heart-pumping cardiovascular workouts and relaxing yoga — is another good step.Finding those supplements — natural herbs and enzymes — that give your new diet that extra boost is an added bonus in the fight against inflammation.
You don’t have to go any farther than your kitchen to start your fight against inflammation. Food can be just as powerful as medication in decreasing inflammation and reducing your risk of chronic disease. This list highlights ten of our favorite inflammation-fighting foods. Make them part of an anti-inflammatory diet, and the punch becomes much more powerful.
Choosing an anti-inflammation diet is one way to control inflammation in your body. For anyone living with chronic inflammation, finding a way to decrease symptoms and, if possible, erase the “bad” inflammation altogether, is a blessing. In many cases, living with inflammation doesn’t have to be permanent — you can treat, prevent, and sometimes even eradicate those inflammatory issues by knowing which foods are triggers for you, which foods are bad for everyone, and how to change your diet accordingly.
You know lowering inflammation can make you feel less bad, but did you know that anti-inflammatory foods can actually make you feel good? Eating right and getting rid of the pain and irritation of inflammation can elevate your mood, which in turn makes you want to move more, socialize more, and just do more.Without achy joints, you may be more willing to take that walk with a friend.
Sticking to a regular high-intensity workout that’s short in duration — about 15 to 30 minutes daily — reduces your risks of obesity and therefore your risks of metabolic syndrome. Physical exercise is also associated with decreased risk of cardiovascular and heart disease and improved cognition and brain function.
The first thing you need to know about inflammation is that it’s not all bad. In fact, inflammation plays an important role in keeping you healthy. Inflammation is the body’s way of protecting itself from harmful bacteria, viruses, and injury. In some cases, though, that system causes the body to turn on itself, attacking healthy cells and organs.
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