Four anti-inflammatory foods you should be eating


Tomatoes, rich in lycopene, are part of a healthful anti-inflammatory diet.

While inflammation is the body's natural response to injury, chronic inflammation can lead to health problems -- but here are four anti-inflammatory foods that can help minimise the damaging effects.

"The inflammation process has one goal: to respond immediately to detect and destroy the toxic material in damaged tissues before it can spread throughout the body," said Dr. Lauren Whitt of the University of Alabama in a March 22 release from the university.

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