What is Inflammation?
When your body notices foreign invaders or experiences an injury, it protects itself and promotes healing through the process of ______.
What is inflammation?
Inflammation is a process by which your body's white blood cells and the things they make protect you from infection from outside invaders, such as bacteria and viruses.
To minimize inflammation, the body is designed to take in very specific vitamins, minerals, and micro-nutrients from real, whole ____.
What are foods?
Real food is whole, single-ingredient food. It is mostly unprocessed, free of chemical additives, and rich in nutrients. In essence, it's the type of food human beings ate exclusively for thousands of years.
The ____ is a powerful organ that cleans and filters every ounce of blood and metabolizes all chemicals in the body.
What is the liver?
Foods that support the liver: cabbage, broccoli, garlic, beets, salad greens, lemon juice, green apples, dandelion greens
_____ is the cleansing process of the body's internal organs from environmental pollutants, food waste, poisons, harmful bacteria, and other substances such as alcohol, medications, and parasites.
What is detoxification?
Signs indicating that your detoxification systems may be out of balance - fatigue and low energy, constipation, inability to lose weight, skin issues, gallbladder problems, unexplained headaches, frequent colds and viruses.
_________ smoke is a toxic blend of poisons and cancer-causing chemicals that put virtually every internal organ at risk when people smoke.
What is cigarette?
Cigarette smoking causes premature death: Life expectancy for smokers is at least 10 years shorter than for nonsmokers. Quitting smoking before the age of 40 greatly reduces the risk of dying from smoking-related diseases.
___ inflammation is short-lived, lasting only a few days or weeks until the issues are resolved, then everything goes back to normal.
What is acute?
Symptoms of acute inflammation include pain, redness, bruising, swelling, and scabs.
When you eat highly _____ foods, refined sugars, fried foods, preservatives, alcohol, and foods with unnatural ingredients, your body will act defensively and mount an inflammatory response.
What is processed?
An anti-inflammatory diet favors fruits and vegetables, foods containing omega-3 fatty acids, whole grains, lean protein, healthful fats, and spices. A colorful plate will provide a range of antioxidants and other nutrients so make sure to vary the colors of fruits and vegetables.
Your ____ are responsible for filtering out carbon dioxide, fumes, mold, allergens, and airborne toxins.
What are the lungs?
Foods that support the lungs: mustard, turnip, radish, wasabi, and cayenne
____ helps the body's organs of elimination to function optimally simply by getting them going. It quickens breathing, promotes blood circulation, and increases sweat production—all factors that promote the release of toxins.
What is exercise?
Exercise alone will not cause the body to detoxify; however, studies and scientific data show that exercise assists the lungs, kidneys, immune system, and intestines in becoming more efficient at naturally detoxifying the body.
Free radicals are unstable atoms that can damage cells, causing illness and speeding up the aging process. Cigarette smoke is extremely inflammatory and it increases free radicals that damage the body. At the same time, it also reduces the supply of vitamins the body uses to try to ________ this damage.
What is prevent/decrease?
Although free radicals are produced naturally in the body, lifestyle factors, like smoking, can accelerate their production.
Other lifestyle factors that increase free radicals include exposure to toxic chemicals, alcohol, and fried foods.
Cigarette smoking is the cause of many health problems and may also make it hard for the body to absorb and use nutrients, such as calcium and vitamins A & D, that help to prevent damage caused by free radicals.
When you have _____ inflammation, your body’s inflammatory response can eventually damage healthy cells, tissues, and organs. Over time, this can lead to DNA damage, tissue death, and internal scarring.
What is chronic?
Symptoms include body pain, constant fatigue and insomnia, depression, anxiety, and other mood disorders, gastrointestinal issues, like constipation, diarrhea, and acid reflux, weight gain, frequent infections.
Some of the most anti-inflammatory ____ include berries, grapes, cherries, apples, and watermelon.
What are fruits?
Choose whole fruits rather than fruit juices or fruit-flavored processed snacks to ensure the fiber, vitamins, minerals, and phytonutrients remain intact.
The ____ is our largest organ that exchanges oxygen and waste through salty sweat and releases heat from the body.
What is the skin?
Foods that support the skin: blueberries, purple cabbage, beets, walnuts, sunflower seeds, nettles, oat straw tea
Toxins get stored in the ____ tissue of the body. Therefore, when this tissue is reduced through exercise, the toxins are released and can be eliminated through the cleansing organs.
What is fatty tissue?
Toxins damage enzymes and thus undermine countless bodily functions—inhibiting the production of hemoglobin in the blood, for example, or lowering the body's capacity to prevent the free-radical damage that accelerates aging. Toxins can also displace structural minerals, resulting in weaker bones.
People who smoke or who are exposed to secondhand smoke have reduced amounts of Vitamin ___, which is needed to make collagen, a protein responsible for growing and repairing cells and keeping our immune system strong.
What is vitamin C?
Highest sources of vitamin C include citrus fruit, such as lemons, limes, grapefruit, and oranges, peppers, strawberries, blackcurrants, broccoli, brussels sprouts, and potatoes.
Chronic inflammation can be caused by environmental toxins and by lifestyle choices, such as lack of sleep, lack of exercise, too much stress, or a toxic and unhealthy ____.
What is diet?
Research shows that what you eat can affect the levels of C-reactive protein (CRP)—a marker for inflammation—in your blood. That could be because some foods like processed sugars help release inflammatory messengers that can raise the risk of chronic inflammation.
Some of the most anti-inflammatory _____ include broccoli, avocados, peppers, mushrooms, and tomatoes.
What are vegetables?
Fresh, simple ingredients are best, raw or lightly cooked. Processing and deep frying can change the nutritional content of foods.
The ______ system parallels the red blood circulation and removes products of infection, bacteria, viruses, and other pathogens from the circulation. The 6 organs of this system include the bone marrow, thymus, spleen, tonsils, mucus membranes, and lymph nodes.
What is the lymphatic system?
**The lymph system relies solely on the body's movement for circulation (it does not have a pump, like the heart in the circulatory/cardiovascular system).
Foods that support the lymph system: ginger, turmeric, lemon, lime, grapefruit, seaweed, garlic
Most scented products contain fragrances that smell nice but contain _____ ingredients that are synthetic, petroleum-based, and toxic to our bodies, capable of triggering skin problems, allergies, respiratory difficulties, hormonal, metabolic, and thyroid problems, and even certain cancers and neurological damage.
What are chemical?
**The EWG reported that, over the average day, women are exposed to more than 160 chemicals just from cosmetics alone...add to that shower products, hair products, cleaning products, laundry detergents....
Cigarettes have approximately 600 ingredients that, when _____, create over 7,000 chemical compounds.
What is burned?
At least 70 of these chemicals are linked to cancer and there are no labels on cigarette packages warning the public about the dangers of these toxic ingredients.
https://www.lung.org/quit-smoking/smoking-facts/whats-in-a-cigarette
Chronic inflammation can lead to diseases such as arthritis, heart disease, autoimmune disease, diabetes, Alzheimer's, cancer, allergies, gout, kidney disease, osteoporosis, and mood disorders such as ______.
What is depression?
Brain inflammation slows down communication between neurons. This is what causes you to feel foggy, dull, and slow.
Other anti-inflammatory foods include green tea, turmeric, extra virgin olive oil, dark chocolate, and wild-caught fatty ____.
What is fish?
The healthiest choices for fish with the lowest levels of mercury are sardines, anchovies, mackerel, herring, rainbow trout, and wild salmon.
The ____ flush waste and toxins from the body by turning it into urine after it's cleaned by the liver.
The ____'s job is to excrete chemical solid waste so that it's not recirculated into the bloodstream.
What are the kidneys?
Foods that support the kidneys: water, parsley, cilantro, green tea, nettles, alfalfa
What is the colon?
Foods that support the colon: lentils, chia seeds, root vegetables, onion, garlic, apples, fermented foods
During sleep, the glymphatic system pumps cerebral spinal fluid through the ____'s tissue to flush out waste products.
What is the brain?
**During sleep, brain cells are reduced in size by 60%, creating more space between the cells to flush out debris.
Some of the harmful chemicals in cigarette smoke include:
Acetone - found in nail polish remover
Acetic acid - an ingredient in hair dye
Ammonia - a common household cleaner
Benzene - found in rubber cement and gasoline
Butane - used in lighter fluid
Formaldehyde - an embalming fluid
and _____ - used in rat poison
What is Arsenic?
One way the tobacco industry has manipulated cigarettes to increase addictiveness is by loading cigarettes with chemical compounds. Bronchodilators were added so that tobacco smoke could more easily enter the lungs. Sugars, flavors, and menthol were increased to dull the harshness of smoke and make it easier to inhale. Ammonia was added so that nicotine travels to the brain faster.