Welcome to the Nutrition Science Podcast, where we help you cut through the noise and make informed science-based decisions about nutrition and your health.

How's it going, everyone?

Welcome back to another episode of the Nutrition Science Podcast.

I'm your host, Dr. Adrian Chavez, and today we are going to cover the topic of inflammatory foods.

We're going to first start by discussing what inflammation is.

Then we're going to talk about how food and what we eat plays a role in inflammatory processes within our body.

And then I'm going to help you understand why when you see someone use this term inflammatory to describe foods,

like for example, saying,

these are the 13 inflammatory foods you should avoid.

This should be a huge red flag that this person does not understand inflammation or how

nutrition plays a role in inflammatory processes.

And that information that you're getting from that person is not something you want to pay attention to.

Because I see this term thrown around very, very often on social media.

I've seen it in several books.

And when someone uses this term, inflammatory, to describe foods, it's completely incorrect.

This is not an appropriate way to describe individual foods or how

individual foods react within our body or how to determine whether individual foods may have a positive

or negative effect on our health. Labeling foods is inflammatory indicates a misunderstanding

of how nutrition and inflammation work, essentially. And you'll

understand why I'm saying this by the end of this episode. And it'll help you in the future to

avoid this type of misleading information and also to help you have a better understanding of how

you can reduce inflammation in your body with nutrition. So let's first start by talking about what

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