FIR Episode 49: What is the Dietary Inflammatory Index (DII)?

The dietary inflammatory index, or DII, is an index that helps link diet, inflammation and disease development.

In this Free and Inspired radio episode, learn more about this evolving way to assess how inflammatory your diet might be. 

Why is inflammation significant when it comes to your overall healthspan?

Well, chances are that you know someone affected by it. 

Globally, three out of five people die due to chronic inflammatory diseases like, for example, stroke, chronic respiratory illnesses, heart or cardiovascular disease, cancer, obesity, and diabetes.

Up until the dawn of the DII, it’s been hard to articulate how to structure an anti-inflammatory diet correctly.

Find out more about the different types of immune responses to food and how that relates to inflammation.

For example, some immune responses, such as a peanut allergy, can be life-threatening if not attended to.

The dietary inflammatory index (DII) examines how your diet can cause long-standing inflammation.

The type of inflammation that slowly degrades your body. The same inflammation is associated with conditions such as irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) in early cases.

Discover which diets and foods score higher on the dietary inflammatory index (DII)

Early research shows a trend towards certain foods scoring higher on the DII. For example, soft drinks, alcohol and tobacco, as expected, all push the score higher.

In contrast, a diet with less processed foods and more fruit and vegetables has a positive effect.

And that’s just the beginning. Tune into this week’s episode of Free and Inspired Radio for more!