Inflammation of the joints is a natural body process.
It comes about when the body is overworked, injured or is attacked by a virus or some kind of bacteria
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It is vital to understand the role of inflammation in the body and how it can cause chronic hip pain, for anyone, and especially would-be ballerinas, men in ballet and athletes.
Whether you are looking for a career builder or just enjoy the challenge of training, it is important to know how to maintain the soft tissues of the body that get worn out on practically a daily basis. To prevent ballet and sports injuries, good training and good work habits are required.
For better rehabilitation, once an injury occurs, adding omega 3 oils to your nutrition is a tremendous help to diminish the natural inflammation response.
Inflammation occurs naturally as a response to injury or immune attack. It is temporary, and we recover. In a healthy body, damaged tissues are removed and replaced with new tissue.
In a body that has a low grade chronic inflammation, in the blood and soft tissues, better recovery may not be as speedy, and may never be complete. Joint injuries are supposed to give you trouble for the rest of your life, although maybe not until you are older, then you are to expect arthritis in a damaged joint, if not in every joint. Why is this?
What causes chronic inflammation in your body?
Why would a young vibrant person in a developed country who has access to good food, good water, vitamin and mineral supplements have a low grade (or not so low) chronic inflammatory condition?
Sugar is one issue. And artificial sweeteners. Don’t eat them. Sorry. Bonnie C. Minsky has an excellent article with more detail about this.
Andrew Weil, holistic health M.D., Nicholas Perricone, M.D., an anti-aging expert, Jeffrey Bland, Ph.D, an allergy nutritionist, all write about inflammation as a major cause of disease. But you can avoid it.
Think a moment about all the good stuff you eat – lean beef, chicken, cold water fish like salmon, tuna, mackerel, and sardines. Salads, vegetables – are you not doing everything right? How could you not rehabilitate quickly and completely from a minor dance or sports injury? You are eating all the right stuff! You are working out in pointe shoes or shooting baskets daily. Why would you not recover one hundred per cent?
The bad news
Here’s the reality. We eat beef and poultry and eggs from the poultry, that are grain fed. That means that the fats from those foods are predominantly omega 6 fatty acids. They are not bad fats. However, omega 6 oils in the body support pro-inflammatory pathways. They promote inflammation.
But grass fed beef and poultry do not fill us with so much omega 6 fats. And as lean as you want to eat, for weight loss, or weight maintenance, some daily animal fat is crucial for your health. Eat the grass fed as much as you can.
More bad news – fast foods and processed foods contain omega 6 oils. So much for that convenience and you cannot eat too much cold water fish because of the pollutants in them, mainly mercury.
The good news
You can now get ultra purified or pharmaceutical grade, fish oils as a nutritional supplement.
You can also decrease your ingestion of omega 6 fats by avoiding all the bottled salad dressings and most bottled vegetable oils that you find at the grocery store. Except for olive oil, avocado oil, walnut oil and flaxseed oil, (and I’m only including here the more typically available oils, there are more), vegetable oils too are omega 6 oils and will promote inflammation in your body.
This sounds pretty hopeless, but here is the good news.
Omega 3 oils are anti-inflammatory and are also readily available. If you are willing to make a small lifestyle change, or get your mother/child/wife/husband/girlfriend/boyfriend/cook, or whoever does the shopping and food prep at home to do so (they will thank you big time), you can switch to omega 3 oils.
If your current training is a career building plan, this information is crucial. If you are training for personal enjoyment, it is important for health too.
Being athletic doesn’t make arthritis a given in your future. Joint pain can be relieved by decreasing inflammation.
>> Inflammation can be decreased by diet
It is really pretty simple.
I hope that if you are a young ballerina, among the men in ballet, or a young athlete, that you will have your parents read this article. I can only touch the tip of the iceberg here, in the topic of omega 3 oils and their anti-inflammatory properties. But the facts seem to indicate that balancing omega 6 fatty acids in your diet with omega 3 oils, would affect your family health for the better. Dance and sports injuries may be in their past or present too.
Bonnie C. Minsky’s article is at http://www.consciouschoice.com/2004/cc1706/healthconscious1706.html.
Find more information on practising natural health to help manage high blood pressure, arthritis, add, menopause, heart health,depression, joint pain and more – Anti Inflammatory Omegas.
By Dianne Buxton, mother, writer, and a ballet teacher, interested in anti-aging nutrition and lifestyles.
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Very interesting post, I really enjoyed reading it – thank you for the information.
omega 3 has given me good pain reduction results
I am just concerned about the main source of Omega 3 which is the liver of fish. as you can see, fishes can accumulate mercury and pcb. “`:
Sometimes pain leads to performance, other times it acts as a roadblock.
.-= Hippie´s last blog post .. http://causeofchronichippain.com/ =-.
Why Athletes or Active People should include Supplements in a Balanced Diet.
Athletes are well known for eating healthy and balanced diets. They know the value of fruits, vegetables, and meat and how these foods help prepare their body for a great workout. Athletes also are usually aware that a healthy diet is not enough. Athletes and Active People burn calories at a very high rate and need supplements if they wish to build muscle mass and work out at optimum levels.
Why Add to Your Diet?
The news is full of information on additives used to process even “natural” foods before they reach your neighborhood market. These pesticides, growth hormones, fertilizers, and other chemicals cut down on the nutritional value of the food you consume. Cooking food is also known to cut down on the nutritional value of what you eat. This information has been used to encourage everyone, not just athletes, of the importance of adding supplements to their diet.
If a normal person is in need of dietary supplements it only follows that you, an athlete, must have these supplements added to your diet. Supplements have been created to replace and add to the nutrients lost in the growing and preparing of food and you can easily add these supplements to your balanced diet.
An Athlete’s Needs
For you to be able to work out at your best you must consider what you eat, the nutritional value of what you eat, and the supplements your body needs. Proteins, vitamins, and minerals must be included in any to any balanced diet for you to increase muscle mass and keep you body functioning during and after workouts.
It is important to note that as an athlete you will be exercising more than the average person. For your body to function during these workouts and for your body to recover between workouts you must supplement what you are getting from your diet.
The most important supplement for athletes is protein. You will find that protein supplements come in the form of protein shakes, protein powders, and protein bars. Any of these will give your body the protein it needs to build muscle and recover between workouts. When planning your protein supplement regime it is suggested that you consume 1 gram of protein for every pound on your body. Take into account the protein you already receive from your diet and add the supplements necessary to reach this amount.
Protein should be added to your diet throughout the day. The best way to get the protein your body needs is to eat 5 small meals a day and drink protein shakes or eat protein bars during and after your workout. This added boost of protein will help your body perform at its best during your workout and recover in time for your next workout.
Other supplements should also become a part of any athlete’s diet. Whey and whey protein, (in the form of whey powder), glutamine, amino acids, and creatine can also easily be added with supplement shakes or multi-vitamin pills. All of these supplements work much like protein to stimulate your cells for the building of lean muscle mass.
As an athlete you should constantly monitor your body and make sure the diet you are following is working. If you find that your body is performing as you want it to and you are seeing positive changes in your body your regimen is most likely working as it should. If you are not seeing changes in muscle mass it will be important to review your supplement intake.
I have dedicated my life to All Natural and Organic living. I’m trying to help educate others through my store, my facebook fan page and great blogs like this. You can click on my name and follow the link to my store, plus the links for my facebook fan page are located on my store’s website. I encourage everyone to post articles on my facebook fan page that help educate people and also take articles to post them on your websites. We can beat America’s Health problem by educating as many people as we can about the dangers of mass produced, genetically modified, un-natural and chemically enhanced food most people consume. Only when we can show big business that we’re incontrol because we demand better quality over their profits and quantity, can we really beat Obesity and other Health issues in the US.
Thank you and I hope to be posting more articles on this blog in the near future. I hope everyone will spread this information or their own on the subject.
Omega 3 oil can really help your heart and arteries so take a sip of it regularly.`-’