Heal With Food | Clean Eating & Anti-Inflammatory Recipes

7-Day Anti-Inflammatory Meal Plan for Beginners  My joints were the first thing I noticed. Not dramatically — I didn't wake up one morning unable to move. It was subtler. My knees ached when I climbed stairs. My fingers were puffy when I woke up, especially in winter. I blamed age, then stress, then sitting too long. It took me embarrassingly long to connect it to food. The shift happened slowly over about three months when I started cutting out the obvious stuff — refined flour, excess sugar, seed oils — and adding more of the foods I kept reading about in the context of inflammation. Wild salmon. Walnuts. Dark leafy greens. Olive oil on everything. Turmeric in warm water before bed, which sounds like something your grandmother made up but actually seemed to help with morning stiffness. I'm sharing this meal plan because starting is the hard part. Not the information — that's everywhere. The hard part is opening your fridge on a Monday morning and knowing what to actua...