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A lack of allergies this year

For some reason I seem to have a lack of allergies this year.  I'm not complaining... I'm very thankful that they just seem to be absent.  Hopefully I'm not jinxing it by writing about it!  But yea, I just don't seem to have any of the things that others around me have going on.  I hope that everyone's allergies go away soon though!

Also I'm HOPING that it's not just a fluke of nature.  I'm hoping that it's actually possibly something related to my high intake of anti-inflamitory foods.

So basically I eat a lot of foods that are high in anti-inflammation properties.  I've been doing research and it seems like a lot of diseases and disorders and chronic things are caused a lot of the time by inflammation response of the body... apparently your body reacts less to disease if you build up a savings account of anti-inflamation chemicals... sorta.  I mean ok I have no idea FULLY how it works... but if you eat lots of highly anti-inflamitory foods over a long period of time... like over a year or two... your body will start to react less to inflammation diseases... like allergies!

Sooooooo what are these magic foods?  Apparently there are a ton of them.  Just google anti-inflammation foods.

I can tell you right now the number one best food ever is the hot pepper.  And the hotter the better.  But most people can't just chop up hot raw hot peppers and put them in their foods.  I've been doing this now for close to a year and I'm pretty sure that's one of the biggest helper foods that is responsible for my lack of allergies.  But I consume a lot of high anti-oxidant anti-inflamitory foods... and I think it's mostly the combination of those foods.

Although apparently some people can have specific allergic reactions to specific foods even if they are anti-inflammitory.  So eating one of the anti-inflammatory foods could actually make it worse!  So be careful of that.  If you know you have an allergy to something don't eat it!

Here are some of my favorite foods that are supposed to be either super healthy anti-oxident OR super anti-inflamitory:

-Hot peppers!  I usually buy raw Serrano and chop em up and eat them in my lunch.

-Blueberries.  I put these in my cereal every single morning.

-Dark Chocolate.  I buy 90 percent dark and chip it into little pieces and then I just grab random little pieces out of my chocolate container a few times a day.

-Green tea.  I have 1 to 2 cups a day.  I also have a cup of coffee.  Just straight up... I drink my green tea green, and my coffee black.

-Ginger.  I add the little shake spice one to some foods I good.  I hear fresh cut ginger is pretty awesome, but I never buy that.  Sometimes I make ginger tea.

-Garlic.  I don't have this every day.  But I like to add it to my foods.

-Whole rolled oats with Cinnamon.  The rolled oats are actually good for your heart and then the cinnamon is good for other stuffs.

-Turmeric. It's basically curry powder.  I add that to my beans and rice when I make anything like that.  Usually i'll buy a big bag of mixed dried beans and then croc pot them over night.  Then I freeze those up in containers.  I add those to random things.  Or just eat them with rice.  Talk about an under 50 cent meal!  It's mad cheap.  Just make sure to boil the beans first for 10 minutes before croc potting them.  They'll never cook otherwise.

-Salmon cooked in olive oil.  I usually cook it up and then put it over cous cous.  But both salmon AND olive oil are anti-inflammatory!  So that's like a double whammy!  Pretty sweet.

Anywho those are some of the foods I use (although as I write this i'm chowing on a bowl of mint chocolate chip ice cream which is TOTALLY probably pro-inflamation).  I'm not sure if that's the reason why I don't have any allergies this year but it could be!  My favorite one is the blue berries in my cereal every morning.  I just LOVE that and can't go a day without it.

The garlic on the other hand?  Sometimes I just have to tone that down.  It's not the best idea to put a lot of garlic in a dish and then go out in public and talk to people.  Same with onions.  Trust me, I know... I've done both.