When pizza scores better than tomatoes
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Why Pizza Ended Up on an Anti-Inflammatory List (And Tomatoes Didn’t)
A Harvard diet score is useful for rating whole diets but confusing food by food. Here’s how to read these lists without getting fooled.
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The Question: I’m worried about inflammation. Is there one food I should be eating to protect myself?
“Anti-inflammatory” has become a shortcut for “healthy.” The problem is that inflammation is one piece of health, and individual foods rarely behave as neatly as the lists suggest.
A Harvard team showed why by building an inflammation-scoring system using diet records and blood tests from thousands of participants.
If you want to improve your health, your eating habits matter far more than whether any single food earns an “anti-inflammatory” label.
The researchers started with diet records and blood tests from thousands of people. They looked at 39 food groups and asked a simple question: Which ones were most common in the diets of people with higher or lower levels of three inflammation markers?
Eighteen food groups helped distinguish between the two, so the researchers combined them into one score for a person’s overall diet.
People with the highest pro-inflammatory diet scores had inflammation markers roughly 23 to 52 percent higher than those with the lowest scores.
The study never tested whether individual foods caused those differences. That’s why some of the rankings seem backward: coffee, tea, wine, and pizza appeared on the lower-inflammation side, while tomatoes and some fish appeared on the higher side.
That doesn’t mean pizza fights inflammation or tomatoes cause it. The study didn’t feed people individual foods and measure what happened. It observed their diets.
A food could score well because people who ate more of it tended to have healthier diets overall. Another could score poorly because it frequently appeared alongside less healthy habits.
In other words, these scores identify eating patterns better than they judge the food on your plate.
This is why chasing “anti-inflammatory” foods can make nutrition more confusing than it needs to be.
You can eat blueberries, turmeric, and salmon while the rest of your diet works against you. You can also eat a food that appears on someone’s inflammatory list without harming an otherwise solid diet.
For better health, zoom out. Eat more vegetables and leafy greens. Cut back on processed meats, refined grains, and sugary drinks. Focus on food categories without stressing calories, and you'll see results.
Start with one change you can repeat, like adding a vegetable to dinner or swapping an afternoon soda for coffee or tea. Your normal week tells you much more about your diet than any single food does.
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