AWeber - FOHAC Newsletter Budget Inflammation Fighting #421a

Published: Wed, 08/30/17

Fair Oaks Health News

Welcome

Aug 30, 2017

Budget Inflammation Fighting

Hi ,

For anyone interested in health, concern with

inflammation is at the very top of the list. Inflammation is the underlying issue behind almost every disease that kills us or makes us suffer in our modern society. Throughout history infection was the biggest concern. Plagues and infections like tuberculosis, small pox, typhoid fever, and so on were the chief causes of death until the last hundred years. Improved sanitation and disease awareness has vastly decreased the concern that some infectious disease will get us when we least expect it. Nope, now a days mysterious sources of inflammation promote disease states in us that cause the majority of our grief.

I have written many articles on things that cause inflammation with the basic advice to simply eliminate these things from your life. Some of those things are easy to do without like plug-in air fresheners and toxic cleaning products and personal care products. Other inflammation causing things are harder to eliminate, like sugar, flour, and seed oils. Turning down those fresh chocolate chip cookies, that hot slice of pizza, or even that Thousand Island dressing on the otherwise healthy salad, are serious challenges. Yet it is food that has the biggest and most direct impact on our inflammation levels. That means it is food that causes our arthritis, asthma, cancer, diabetes, Alzheimer’s, heart disease,

strokes, autoimmune diseases, hormonal imbalances, and so on.

To fight this battle we have turned to powerful inflammation fighting nutrients in the form of supplements. I have cabinets full of them. My morning breakfast smoothie has several dollars worth of specialized nutrients in it on top of the various pills I take. All these expensive and specialized nutrients are derived from specific foods and herbs. Most likely much of the value of these nutrients is wasted because my body does not need those specific inflammation fighters every day. Why is that? It’s because our bodies create hundreds of different inflammatory chemicals for hundreds of different reasons. Knowing just what we need to balance our system in each moment is beyond us. We have to trust that our body knows what to do and when to it. It just needs our overall diet to be balanced, and not overloaded with inflammatory foods.

Toward that end I recently came across a useful website called inflammationfactor.com. Its author, Monica Reinagel, has gone to a ton of work to determine the average amount of inflammation or anti-inflammation each food will create in the average person. She gives 2400 foods a specific rating for a specific amount of each of these foods. The idea is to guide your food choices so that the total average of all the foods you have in a given meal totals up to a net anti-inflammatory score. There is even a cell phone app to help you do this.

How she comes up with her ratings is complex, because foods are complex. Fortunately we don’t need to know any of this behind the scenes stuff. Her system has limitations as it is based on averages and does not take into account the effects of food sensitivities, concerns like lectins, or the impact of pesticides, processing, or food chemicals. But it is still useful to give you an idea about what to eat to promote an inflammation fighting lifestyle.

Now here is the budget saving part of the whole story. By looking over her food ratings we can see which foods have the highest general inflammation fighting capacity for the least money. Here are some of the top inflammation fighting foods that also cost the least:

Onions & garlic
Sweet potatoes
Kale
Mustard, collard, dandelion, & turnip greens
Pineapple
Avocados
Cabbage, Chinese cabbage, & bok choy
Red & yellow peppers (but avoid because of lectins)
Cauliflower, Broccoli, & Brussels sprouts
Carrots
Spinach & leafy green lettuces
Celery

As you can see, vegetables dominate the list of inexpensive anti-inflammatory foods. There are many foods with higher ratings, but which also cost quite a bit more. For example good wild caught sockeye salmon, white tuna, and pickled herring have much higher values because of their high omega 3 content. But for cost savings lets look at that a little closer. A 3-ounce serving of any of these fish will cost $2 -$3 and contain between ½ to ¾ of a gram of omega 3 oils. The concentrated fish

oil I sell in the office has 3.5 grams per serving for only about $1 per serving. To get this from eating fish will cost you at least $14, so buying the highly concentrated fish oil is a much better budget buy.

Blame my upbringing, but getting good value for dollars spent is important to me. Many supplements fall into this category. It’s cheaper than trying to get them from food sources. But there are lots of vital elements in organic soil-raised foods that still are not available in most supplements (except for Standard Process products, which are concentrated foods grown this way).

On the other end of the spectrum, the ratings list shows which foods are the most inflammatory. There are no surprises here, with sugar, flour, pasta, cereals, chips, sodas, potatoes, grains, legumes/beans, and dairy topping the list of evil inflammation causing foods. What was surprising was that most fruits are rated inflammation causing because of the sugar in them and eggs also rated bad because of the kind of fat in them.

I plan to combine this information with the lectin avoiding diet information to create a truly anti-inflammatory diet for myself. I will probably still spend silly amounts of money on supplements to achieve specific health goals, but this inflammation rating system is another really helpful tool in my quest to keep my body running happily.

Take care,

David

Ellen update:

Ellen has been inspired by her friend Catherine to try out a local Acupuncturist who treated his own stroke with acupuncture and was back to work in a week. She has received a couple acupuncture treatments from my sister-in-law Satya when we went up to Portland for a visit, but she has never tried a series of treatments - which is generally required for this type of issue. Life is an adventure. The trick is to stay engaged and keep trying.

Survey Results

Well the results are in. 67 of you took the survey and the results look like this.

1.   Is the amount if information I present
a.   Too much 9%
b.   Just right 88%
c.   Not enough 3%

2.   I read the three ‘current health news’ article reviews after the main article
a.   Yes 61%
b.   No 8%
c. Maybe 31%

3.   I like the personal section on Ellen and what not
a.   Yes 94%
b.   No 0%
c. Maybe 6%

4.   I like recipes for low lectin paleo/ketogenic foods
a.   Yes 71%
b.   No 12%
c. Maybe 18%

5.   I like the abundant pictures illustrating the articles
a.   Yes 77%
b.   Would prefer just one picture at the top 18%
c.   Would prefer no pictures 5%

6.   One article a week is
a.   Too often 4.5%
b.   Just right 91%
c.   Not enough 4.5%

Thank you for your valuable feedback. In this case the overwhelming response appears to be in favor of keeping the newsletter just as it currently is. I have a couple ideas I might try out to address the desires of the minority.
Thanks again, David

Common antiseptic de-energizes cells

The antiseptic substance called quats - quaternary ammonium compounds - found in just about every personal care product from toothpaste to eye drops has been found to mess up the energy factories in your cells, the mitochondria. They also scramble the estrogen signaling to your cells affecting fertility and brain function. If you find these things in your products, simply throw them away.

Antiseptics

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"Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage."

~ Anais Nin

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Teenager's sleep cycle runs later

Our sleep cycle is run by our circadian rhythm. Research measuring the circadian rhythm has shown that teenagers are wired up to get ready for sleep later than adults or children and that they need 8 to 10 hours of sleep a day. Consequently teens are found to do much better in school if they don't have to get up so early for school. When school starts at 8:30 or later the teens are found to be more alert, in better moods, and perform better in athletics.

Teen sleep

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"We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are."

~ Anais Nin
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Dancing reverses brain aging

It is well known that physical exercise improves brain function, but recent research has shown that learning to dance many new styles of dance does the best job at this. It is believed that the added brain activation from having to learn new dance patterns constantly produced the improved brain functioning.

Dancing

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"I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing."

~ Anais Nin

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Our address is 9725 Fair Oaks Blvd. suite A
Our hours are M - F 9 to 1 and M, Tu, & Th 3 to 6

Finding the new location is very easy. Coming from highway 50 up Sunrise Blvd, you turn left and go up a block. We are on the right hand side - the building just past the Subway Sandwich shop. If you are coming down Sunrise from the Mall area then just turn right on Fair Oaks Blvd and up a block on the right.

If you are coming from the Roseville area you could come down Sunrise Blvd, but that is a long trek. It is probably shorter time wise to come down Auburn Blvd - San Juan Ave like you have been for the Sunset office, but instead of turning left at Sunset, keep going straight 3 more lights to Fair Oaks Blvd and turn left. Go down 2 lights to New York Ave, go through the intersection, and immediately turn into the turn lane once the center divider ends. We are on the left.

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About Dr. DeLapp

Dr. DeLapp has been a philosopher, non-force Chiropractor, medical intuitive, and health innovator for over 30 years. He began experimenting with medical intuition in 1972 while studying physics at UC Davis. In addition to physics he designed and completed an individual major in the philosophy and psychology of education. Shortly after he choose to pursue a career in the only truly health oriented profession available at that time, Chiropractic. He graduated with honors in 1981 with his doctorate and opened a private practice.
Since that time he has continued his research into the effects of consciousness and learning on health.
He developed the Biomagnetic Retraining system for correcting movement abnormalities.
Since 1991 he has focused on developing a powerful system for uncovering and assisting the mind-body connection in health and personal growth. The in-depth coaching, guided by the subconscious direction from the body, is called Heartflow and the simpler mind-body retraining for health and unfoldment he has named Gracework. Both are available at Fair Oaks Health.

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