List Books » The Inflammation Syndrome: The Complete Nutritional Program to Prevent and Reverse Heart Disease, Arthritis, Diabetes, Allergies, and Asthma
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)
JACK CHALLEM, known as The Nutrition Reporter™, is a leading health and medical writer and a contributing editor for Body & Soul and Lets 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.
What is the Inflammation Syndrome? Its the cumulative effect of low-grade inflammationincluding the aches and pains that we all experiencethat 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, asthmaeven 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 diseaseand to show you how to reverse and heal it.
Drawing on the cutting-edge research being done all over the worldresearch that has led to the successful treatment of many people who were considered untreatable or incurable by conventional medicineJack 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 ones diet and healthand to feel great.
Foreword | ||
Acknowledgments | ||
Introduction | 1 | |
1 | Meet the Inflammation Syndrome | 9 |
2 | Your Inflammation Triggers | 19 |
3 | The Dietary Causes of Inflammation | 26 |
4 | Balancing a Diet That's Out of Balance | 34 |
5 | What's Wrong with Anti-Inflammatory Drugs | 49 |
6 | Fifteen Steps to Fight the Inflammation Syndrome | 59 |
7 | Anti-Inflammation Syndrome Menu Plans and Recipes | 78 |
8 | Good Fats That Rev Up Your Body's Natural Anti-Inflammatories | 103 |
9 | Vitamin E to Extinguish the Flames of Inflammation | 116 |
10 | Glucosamine, Chondroitin, and Vitamin C to Rebuild Your Tissues | 128 |
11 | B Vitamins and More to Reduce Inflammation | 136 |
12 | The Inflammation Syndrome, Diseases, and Specific Conditions | 155 |
Afterword: Staying Healthy for Life | 217 | |
App. A: Medical Tests to Assess Inflammation | 219 | |
App. B: Sources of Anti-Inflammatory Products | 220 | |
Selected References | 231 | |
Index | 247 |