A recent study has found that a combination of foods from porridge oats to blueberries is an answer to a long and healthy life. Consuming a number of anti-inflammatory enhancing foods could have effect on the body. It was found diet contained such foods could reduce levels of bad cholesterol.
High level of bad cholesterol is an indicator of heart disease. It is also proposed that there were cumulative beneficial effects in comprehensive diet and needs a lifestyle renovation instead of making few changes to your cooking. It has already been known that a healthy and balanced diet protect you against a wide range of diseases from heart problems to cancer.
In earlier studies the beneficial effects of antioxidant rich fruit and vegetables, nuts, whole grains and oily fish have all been highlighted. But, the most recent study recommends that diverse meals had an immense impact than adding single foods.
A study trail was conducted by team led by lead researcher Prof Inger Björck, head of the University’s Antidiabetic Food Centre included forty-four healthy but overweight people aged fifty to eighty. For the period of four weeks they consumed foods that were supposed to reduce substandard inflammation in the body.
Low grade inflammation is a condition that activates metabolic syndrome results in obesity, diabetes and heart disease. The trail diet was high in antioxidants, wholegrain products, omega fatty acids, probiotics and viscous dietary fibre. The foods they eaten were oily fish, barley, soy protein, blueberries, almonds, cinnamon, vinegar and a certain type of wholegrain bread.
The results of the trail showed that bad cholesterol was reduced by thirty-three percent, blood lipids by fourteen percent and risk indicator for blood clots by twenty-six percent. An indicator of inflammation in the body is also diminished greatly, though memory and cognitive functions were enhanced.
They hope that these findings on healthy topics will motivate extra anticipatory efforts in society. Inflammation is supposed to be a major cause for chronic ailments and can cause cells to turn cancerous, explained Prof Björck.