So this is the first in a series of blogs about how nutrition
can help with things other than, whether you look good in your
bikini or not. If you are reading this, then you will have at
some point in your life experienced pain and swelling after a
bump or fall, itching or streaming eyes in response to an
allergy or cramping and internal discomfort due to bad bacteria
in a food you have eaten. Inflammation is the body's immediate
response to protect and heal itself from damage caused by either
virus, bacteria, environmental toxin or injury. It can
therefore, occur anywhere in the body. After rest, once the
allergen has gone or after a short period of taking medication,
the body returns back to normal. This short-lived response is
known as acute inflammation. Inflammation can also occur,
however, for a prolonged period of time. If the inflammatory
agent keeps being re-introduced or the body is in a weakened or
stressed state, it continuously has to fight off the repeat
offender and the inflammatory response fa