Food Inflammation Index (FII)

 

Inflammatory food elements and ingredients can cause harm to our bodies and decrease our longevity. Inflammation has been shown to link to many human illness such as cardiovascular and autoimmune diseases, certain cancers and perhaps obesity.

Careless dietary habits can therefore lead to sickness, diseases, and hasten aging process. Myfitdiet program introduces a novel concept and technology which utilizes Food Inflammation Index (FII) to minimizes the unhealthy dietary micro-nutrition's that can cause inflammation in human body.

 

While Food Inflammation Index (FII) is currently a qualitative indicator of the type of food which we eat, further research continues to improve its sensitivity and specificity related to health and diseases.

 

FII is determined from the likelihood of a certain food element which can cause inflammation or harmful effect in the human body. For example, cholesterol has a high inflammatory index, because it is known to lead to increased cardiovascular diseases.  When we cook a piece of red meat at high temperature, the process can potentially increase the harmful nature of the food. Therefore, FII index will increase. Increased calorie more than our body can consume will lead to undesirable health aspects.

Therefore, FII index will be markedly increased, if a person eats excess amount of red mean cooked or barbecued at very high temperature.

The calculation of FII is based on different types of carbohydrate (glycemic index), fats, proteins and calories consumed. It is a composite index given to a food item. For example, a number is assigned to "hamburger" based on the type of carbohydrate, fats and protein contents, as well as the amount of calorie it contains.

 

Japanese has a lower daily total FII than an average of American. To achieve low daily total FII index number, a person is allowed to mix with food of relatively high FII and low FII, as long as an acceptable daily FII number is maintained. In this way, it is possible to control our food and calorie intake, allowing an individual a choice of their favorite food items.

 

Preliminary clinical studies using FII index showed favorable results in overall well-beings and health benefits. However, individual currently using FII index should be under supervision and monitoring. Further research is needed to further our understanding in this area of anti-inflammatory diet.

 

Please refer to the soon-published book "Food Inflammation Index (FII)"