Gillian McKeith's Food Bible (315 page)

Fruits and vegetables for antioxidants.

Get more oils into your body—eat oily fish like salmon, herring, mackerel, and sardines. These contain anti-inflammatory omega-3 fats.

Eat from all the different berries for their flavanoids, which may help in reducing swellings. Papaya is a wonderful food that contains anti-inflammatory properties.

Eat yellow foods such as squash, carrots, and yams. These contain beta-carotene, needed for a healthy immune system.

Add turmeric to your stews. Turmeric contains the flavanoid curcumin, which has anti-inflammatory properties.

Use olive oil and gold of pleasure seed oil liberally on your salads.

Eat foods rich in molybdenum, such as adzuki beans. This compound helps liver detox, and a healthy liver affects the health of every cell in the body. Try adzuki bean soup, salads, casseroles, and stews.

Go for the cruciferous vegetables such as kale, cabbage, collards, and brussels sprouts.

Drink celery juice for its diuretic effect, but, if you find that hard going on its own, just make sure that you add celery to your veggie juices. Mix it with carrot, kale, or cabbage.

Chomp on celery stalks, too. You can dip the stalks in mustard or hummus.

Sprinkle ground flax seeds on your oatmeal for their anti-inflammatory effect.

Eat raw shelled hemp seeds for snacks and mash them into avocados.

Add ginger to your meals, too. You can grate it finely. It is thought that it may block the prostoglandins that cause inflammation.