Inflammatory Foods and Weight Loss

Did you know you could be making your weight loss efforts worse by eating inflammatory foods?things you eat? The foods you eat either contribute to inflammation or minimize the inflammation in your body. Eating inflammatory foods constantly puts your body in constant systemic inflammation. Some people believe that when your body is in a state of inflammation, your fat cells encourage obesity and disease (like Type 2 Diabetes). Weight loss is constantly thwarted even you are eating fewer calories -- if those calories are poor quality foods. Here are some of those foods:

- trans fats (including partially hydrogenated oil)
- harmful saturated fats
- white flour
- white sugar
- processed foods
- high fructose corn syrup
- fruits and vegetables with high pesticide contents

Avoiding these foods will free your body to function better and more effectively so that you do lose weight.

These foods should help minimize inflammation and boost weight loss:

- walnuts and other nuts
- whole foods
- whole grains
- fatty fish
- organic food and produce

What do you have to lose? A few pounds?!