The Inflammation Syndrome: Your Nutrition Plan for Great Health, Weight Loss, and Pain-Free Living »

JACK CHALLEM is the author of many successful health books, including Syndrome X and Stop Prediabetes Now. Challem is the publisher and editor of The Nutrition Reporter, a newsletter that highlights the latest cutting-edge global nutritional research. He runs a private nutrition practice and lectures worldwide.

Now thoroughly updated with the latest crucial information—Jack Challem's powerful plan to safely prevent and overcome inflammatory disorders

Author of the groundbreaking Syndrome X, Jack Challem was the first nutrition expert to identify the Inflammation Syndrome—and to show how to heal it. Now, drawing on the latest cutting-edge research from all over the world, Challem has revised and updated his revolutionary approach to healing inflammation—one of the major causes of diseases such as heart disease, arthritis, and diabetes—through an easy-to-follow nutritional program. Challem reveals many of the hidden dangers in the foods you eat that set the stage for inflammation, then shows you how to take the right steps toward eating well and regaining your health. The Inflammation Syndrome shows you how to feel better for life starting now.

Features of this revision of The Inflammation Syndrome include:

• Revealing quizzes and tests you can take to assess your inflammation level and risk
• Fourteen steps for restoring dietary balance and simple new recipes for delicious, healing, anti-inflammatory meals and menu plans
• The latest information on dosage recommendations for anti-inflammation supplements such as omega-3 fish oils, vitamin D, and other nutrients you may be lacking in your diet
• New recommendations for your best individualized diet plan
• Dramatic new case histories of patients treated by nutritionally trained health practitioners

"In a scientifically accurate and easy-to-understand manner, Jack Challem lays out the basic nutrition plan for good health and weight loss."—Loren Cordain, Ph.D., author of The Paleo Diet

"Challem's new book hits a home run with the latest research on what to eat and take to defeat our real number-one cause of health problems—inflammation. It's a message of the utmost importance." —Jean Carper, author of Stop Aging Now!

"The program Jack Challem outlines in The Inflammation Syndrome is a great first step in ridding your body of this deadly problem." —Fred Pescatore, M.D., author of The Hamptons Diet

Foreword Ronald E. Hunninghake Hugh D. Riordan vii

Acknowledgmenis xi

Introduction to the Original Edition 1

Introduction to the Revised Edition 6

Part I The Inflammation-Disease Connection 11

1 Meet the Inflammation Syndrome 13

2 Your Inflammation Triggers 25

3 The Dietary Causes of Inflammation 33

4 Correcting a Diet That's Out of Balance 47

5 What's Wrong with Anti-Inflammatory Drugs 62

Part II The AI Diet Plan 71

6 Fourteen Steps to Fight the Inflammation Syndrome 73

7 The AI Diet Menu Plans and Recipes 93

Part III The AI Supplement Plan 123

8 Good Fats That Rev Up Your Body's Natural Anti-Inflammatories 125

9 The Power of Anti-Inflammatory Herbs 142

10 The Anti-Inflammatory Benefits of a Multivitamin Supplement 155

11 Glucosamine, Chondroitin, and Other Supplements for Osteoarthritis 166

Part IV Putting Anti-Inflammation Syndrome Nutrients to Work for You 175

12 The Inflammation Syndrome, Diseases, and Specific Conditions 177

Afterword: Stay Healthy for Life 250

Index 253