Article: Healing from within: Anti-inflammatory foods keep disease at bay, doc says.

Byline: Beth Cooney

May 16--Editor's note: This is the first in a monthly series that looks at new diets and how they work. * First it was fat. Then carbohydrates. The latest culprit getting the blame for causing the battle of the bulge? Inflammation. Inflammation, the cellular condition associated with medical problems such as arthritis, allergies, asthma and diabetes, is getting blamed by some diet doctors for the collective troubles of that frustrated class of dieters who can't lose weight. While many physicians have long suspected that obesity aggravated inflammation, some are now suggesting the opposite is true. "It may actually be the ...

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