United States: Minimum sixty percent of Americans follow a pro-inflammatory diets which may lead to heart diseases, cancer, and many other complications, as the latest study revealed.
The study also found that Black people, males, and those earning less are more inclined to adopt pro-inflammatory diets.
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The study described clearly that Dietary Inflammatory Index, which states that diets such as red meat and alcohol are associated with higher inflammation potential than foods such as green leafy vegetables and fatty fish.
Experts recommend incorporating anti-inflammatory foods – garlic, ginger, and green tea- to enhance the health status of patients.
What more has the study found?
Almost six in ten Americans have pro-inflammatory diets, which means an increase in the risk of health problems, such as heart disease and cancer, as per a new study that used a tool designed to examine inflammation in the diet, neurosciencenews.com reported.
The study also discovered that there are specific populations, which include Black Americans, men, and people with lower incomes, who were more inclined to consume a diet high in pro-inflammatory foods.
According to Rachel Meadows, the lead author and the visiting faculty in The Ohio State University’s College of Public Health, “Overall, 57% of U.S. adults have a pro-inflammatory diet and that number was higher for Black Americans, men, younger adults and people with lower education and income,” neurosciencenews.com reported.
How was the study conducted?
The research team employed the rationale for using the dietary inflammatory index, a tool constructed a decade ago that consists of 45 dietary components to assess the diets of over 34,500 adults in the 2005–2018 National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey.
Using the tool, they categorized diets from − 9 to 8 according to their inflammatory score, where the middle value is 0, which indicates a noninflammatory diet based on their reported diet.
Again, 34 percent of people in the study had low dietary inflammatory intake, while 9 percent had intermediate intake.
Older dietary measures incorporate a number of different food groups (for example, fruits, vegetables, or dairy products) or macronutrients (for example, carbohydrates, proteins, fats) that correspond to such national diets or keto/paleo diets, etc.
According to Meadows, “But inflammation is an important element to consider, and the overall balance of the diet is most important,” and “Even if you’re eating enough fruits or vegetables, if you’re having too much alcohol or red meat, then your overall diet can still be pro-inflammatory.”
Meadows said that she feared that such strategies prevented people from viewing the foods that were not on the list as bad and said she preferred to think in terms of the counter-inflammatory foods as tools to improve health.