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The Inflammation Syndrome: The Complete Nutritional Program to Prevent and Reverse Heart Disease, Arthritis, Diabetes, Allergies, and Asthma »

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Authors: Jack Challem, Hugh D. Riordan (Foreword by), Ronald E. Hunninghake (Foreword by), Ron Hunninghake
ISBN-13: 9780471202714, ISBN-10: 0471202711
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Wiley, John & Sons, Incorporated
Date Published: February 2003
Edition: (Non-applicable)

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Author Biography: Jack Challem

JACK CHALLEM, known as The Nutrition Reporter™, is a leading health and medical writer and a contributing editor for Body & Soul and Let’s Live magazines, as well as other consumer health publications. His scientific articles have been published in Free Radical Biology & Medicine, Journal of Orthomolecular Medicine, Medical Hypotheses, and other journals. Challem is the lead author of the bestselling Syndrome X.

Book Synopsis

What is the Inflammation Syndrome? It’s the cumulative effect of low-grade inflammation–including the aches and pains that we all experience–that grows into chronic, debilitating disease. The Inflammation Syndrome breaks down your body, making you feel old, tired, and sick. Triggered by inflammatory foods in your diet, the Inflammation Syndrome wreaks havoc on your health, paving the way for such serious diseases as heart disease, diabetes, Syndrome X, obesity, arthritis, allergies, asthma–even some cancers. Written by the bestselling coauthor of the groundbreaking Syndrome X, the book that helped bring the attention of the public to insulin resistance and the diabetes epidemic, The Inflammation Syndrome is the first major book to describe the broad role inflammation plays in disease–and to show you how to reverse and heal it.

Drawing on the cutting-edge research being done all over the world–research that has led to the successful treatment of many people who were considered untreatable or incurable by conventional medicine–Jack Challem provides a revolutionary approach to healing inflammation through an easy-to-follow nutritional program. Challem includes quizzes and tests to assess inflammation levels and risks; anti-Inflammation Syndrome recipes and menu plans; and easy ways to use healthy fats and other nutrients to quench the fires of inflammation. Challem reveals many of the hidden dangers in foods that set the stage for inflammation, causing aches, pains, and allergic reactions and increasing the long-term risk of life-threatening diseases. He shares the latest information on the problems with conventional prescription and over-the-counter anti-inflammatory drugs. He also offers dramatic case histories of patients treated by nutritionally oriented practitioners and up-to-the-minute information on and dosage recommendations for the best natural anti-inflammation supplements, such as fish oils, vitamin E, herbs, and many other natural remedies.

Providing a powerful plan to safely prevent and overcome inflammatory disorders, The Inflammation Syndrome shows just how easy it can be to take charge of one’s diet and health–and to feel great.

Table of Contents

Foreword
Acknowledgments
Introduction1
1Meet the Inflammation Syndrome9
2Your Inflammation Triggers19
3The Dietary Causes of Inflammation26
4Balancing a Diet That's Out of Balance34
5What's Wrong with Anti-Inflammatory Drugs49
6Fifteen Steps to Fight the Inflammation Syndrome59
7Anti-Inflammation Syndrome Menu Plans and Recipes78
8Good Fats That Rev Up Your Body's Natural Anti-Inflammatories103
9Vitamin E to Extinguish the Flames of Inflammation116
10Glucosamine, Chondroitin, and Vitamin C to Rebuild Your Tissues128
11B Vitamins and More to Reduce Inflammation136
12The Inflammation Syndrome, Diseases, and Specific Conditions155
Afterword: Staying Healthy for Life217
App. A: Medical Tests to Assess Inflammation219
App. B: Sources of Anti-Inflammatory Products220
Selected References231
Index247

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