Inflammatory Foods are Misunderstood

Medium - Ellis M. 30.11.2018

Even healthy foods can be bad for you

Do you love brussels sprouts, but find yourself a little gassy after eating them? Or maybe a lot gassy?

What about pizza? Does it give you heartburn? It’s the tomato sauce, does it every time.

Or maybe cucumbers make you burp? That damn spa water, but it’s so fancy.

t’s possible you’ve had these symptoms, but hadn’t connected them to food. Sometimes you get so used to physical ailments (gas, runny nose, indigestion), that you don’t realize they’re a distress signal.

More specifically, they’re a sign that your body is rejecting what it’s been fed and it’s putting up a fight in your digestive system. War is happening in your bowels and it’s causing inflammation in your intestines.

The way you win this war is by phasing out the foods that give you problems. Unfortunately, that probably includes some of your favorite foods.

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