Here's a passage from a new report:
QUOTE: "We study airway inflammation, and mostly we think about that in a negative context - how to stop inflammation, as in the allergic inflammation that causes asthma," says Dickey. "But surely the ability of airways to become inflamed is there for a good reason... UNQUOTE.
What this person doesn't seem to realize is that harmful inflammatory responses appear to be controllable with diet, so to say that there is a "good reason" for it is misleading. It is likely that "modern" diets are responsible for the dangerous inflammation, and that "good inflammation" is not very common any more (other than cuts and minor insults that won't become chronic or won't be potentially life-threatening in the short term). "Nature" did not design it that way, because few if any humans had AA in their cells until the last several decades or so.
Source: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/12/071203103414.htm |