Dietary Inflammatory Index: A New Tool for Assessing Inflammation Contain on Foods Which Consumed by Adolescence to Reduce Non Communicable Diseases

Abstract

The state of obesity in the body lead to have chronic low-grade inflammation in the long term condition. Diet has been known as an important regulatory factor on inflammatory condition. Characteristic of individual diet according to its inflammatory properties in order to investigate the inflammatory links between obesity and diet can be assessed by dietary inflammatory index (DII). The study aimed to asses inflammation contain on foods which consumed by adolescence using new tool namely dietary inflammatory index. A comparative cross sectional study with 152 overweight-obese and 151 normal adolescence in Trenggalek District was involved. Inflammation contained on foods measured by dietary inflammatory index. Nutritional status of adolescence was categorized using CDC (BMI-for-Agepercentils). There was no differences between dietary inflammatory index and nutritional status (p>0.05). However,

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inflammatory diet (the higher dietary inflammatory index score) was found among overweight and obese adolescence. Inversely, anti inflammatory diet (the lower dietary inflammatory index score) was associated with normal adolescence. Therefore, overweight and obese adolescence should consume more foods which contain anti inflammatory parameter to prevent high circulating of adipocytokines in the blood so that incidence of metabolic syndrome can be reduced earlier.