My Top Six Anti-Inflammatory Foods | Mark's Daily Apple

http://www.marksdailyapple.com/top-6-anti-inflammatory-foods/#axzz1kVbkDAgu

Mark lists his favorites, which are:  wild fish fat, pastured animal fat, red palm oil, cruciferous vegetables, berries, turmeric.


The article also presents a useful context for how to think of inflammation, when it is good and when it is not.

Read on:  Any discussion of a concept as nebulous, multifaceted, and confusing as inflammation must integrate the question of context. Inflammation itself is highly contextual – as I’ve discussed in previous installments, there are times when inflammation is a good thing and times when inflammation is a negative thing. There are also times when anti-inflammatory actions, drugs, or foods are negatives, even though “anti-inflammatory” has a positive connotation. If you blunt the post-exercise inflammatory response with an anti-inflammatory drug, for example, you also run the risk of blunting the positive effects of that workout.

We must also pay attention to acute and systemic inflammation when discussing the desirability of an “anti-inflammatory” food. Eating a big meal tends to raise inflammatory markers in the short term. If you’re overeating every single meal, this is problematic; the acute will become the norm – the chronic. If you’re eating big after a massive workout session, or because you’re celebrating at an amazing restaurant with your dearest friends, or because you’re coming off a twenty-four hour IF, it’s fine. Context.