Hello and welcome to Dishing Up Nutrition's Ask a Nutritionist podcast brought to by nutritional weight

and wellness. My name is Leah Klein-Trode and I'm a registered and licensed dietitian,

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feedback helps others find these important real food messages. Now let's get started. On today's

show, I will be answering a question that we received from one of our

Dishing Up Nutrition listeners. This listener asks, if a person starts eating only real food and

gives up sugar, how long until you see results like less inflammation? And I think this is a great question and it's a very logical

question for anybody to ask when they're considering making a change, any kind of change,

whether it is lifestyle related or otherwise, any kind of change in your life. You want to know

how long until I start to notice progress in the right direction.

I'll start us off by saying, in my experience, when people start to make the shift from

eating ultra-processed foods to eating real food and getting rid of the sugar in their diet,

they notice some amount of positive change pretty quickly.

And when I say pretty quickly, I'm talking about within even a few days or in that first week.

But that statement does come with caveats, which I'll get into in a moment.

Low-grade inflammation is at the root of most symptoms and chronic

conditions. So really any improvement in any symptom means that there's less inflammation in the body.

It might not always be the symptom or symptoms that someone is focusing on for their health or like the one thing that they want to

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