Every day, millions of people suffer their way through a workout because of shoulder, knee, back or some other type of joint pain.
Believe it or not, food, not necessarily age or genetics, is the primary culprit for the majority of these nasty side effects.
According to the Nutrition Nerd, Nicky Pineault, there are 5 foods you should remove from your diet in order to recover twice as fast, while eliminating pain faster than ANY pill:
1) Sugar. This one is obvious. Nothing damages the digestive track like sugar.
The medical community is starting to agree on the fact that chronic inflammation often starts in your gut, the biggest part of your immune system.
2) Alcohol. I also like my Friday night drink-out, but keep in mind that beer or any other alcoholic beverage damages your gut flora and liver when consumed in excess.
3) Grains. Refined or not, grains are inflammatory. It gets MUCH worse if you’re gluten-sensitive, like 10-15 % of the world’s population.
Additionally, the phytic acid and lecithins in grains are a problem for most people, even without allergies or intolerance.
4) Refined vegetable oil. Canola, soy, safflower, corn, sunflower, you name it.
Even though these oils are advertised as healthy and trans-fat free, turns out the heavy refining which they go through destroys the healthy fats and turns them into highly inflammatory byproducts.
5) Pasteurized dairy. 75% of the world’s population is intolerant to lactose.
That’s because the pasteurization process destroys the healthy bacteria and enzymes in raw milk, which makes this popular beverage very hard to digest.
In my experience, most people feel like a million bucks when drinking less pasteurized milk or ditching processed dairy altogether.
These are just a very small subset of the inflammatory foods most of us are consuming on a daily basis.
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