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| Dr. James Hébert is the Founder and Scientific Director of Connecting Health Innovations LLC and a world-renowned expert on chronic inflammation. Join the DII Life Movement!
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| The 1st edition of Diet, Inflammation and Health, authored by Drs. James Hebert, Hofseth and Shivappa introduces concepts of inflammation, the role of acute inflammatory responses in good health, and the association of chronic systemic inflammation with mental distress, cognitive decline, and chronic diseases, ranging from diabetes to cardiovascular diseases, stroke, and cancer. | |||
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| Why the Dietary Inflammatory Index® (DII®) | |||
Learn how inflammation can be reduced through the DII® |
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| March 29, 2023 | April 6, 2020 | April, 17, 2017 | |
| James Hébert honored with 2023 ASPPH Research Excellence Award | The Association of Schools and Programs of Public Health (ASPPH) has named James Hébert (pictured far right above), Health Sciences Distinguished Professor of Epidemiology, as the 2023 recipient of their Research Excellence Award. | James Hébert is named as member of the NIH Nutrition Research Task Force Thought Leaders Panel. | |
| May 15, 2020 | April 6, 2020 | October 10, 2019 | |
| Dr. James Hébert on Produce as an Immune Boost Against COVID-19. Statistical evidence shows that those most in danger of a negative outcome from Covid-19 are individuals who are obese or elderly. | Dr. James Hébert, the creator of the Dietary Inflammatory Index, which ranks thousands of foods based on how they impact chronic inflammation states in the body, says our first-best-line-of-defense against COVID-19 or any other infection is the foods that are already in our pantries and refrigerators. | Dr. James Hébert is invited speaker to the 1st World Congress of Future Leader/Volunteer (WCFLV 2019) as part of the BRICSCESS 2019 Conference held in Cape Town, Africa. | |
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| Connecting Health Innovations sponsors DII®-Certified lunch at SEPC 20th Anniversary Southern Exposure Spectacular at the Disney Swan and Dolphin Resort in Orlando. | “The Healing Benefits of Produce” session panelists discuss the educational , medical and retail perspectives of the role produce plays in fighting major diseases. | Dr. James R. Hébert, inventor of the Dietary Inflammatory Index® (DII®) was one of three panelists at the Healing Benefits of Produce. Read full article here |
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PRESS RELEASES
September 19, 2020 September 21st is World Alzheimer’s Day | Cognitive Decline and Dementia are NOT Inevitable Consequences of Getting Older. Here’s How to Fight It.
March 3, 2019 DIETARY INFLAMMATION EXPERT DR. JAMES R. HÉBERT HEADS PRESTIGIOUS PANEL AT SEPC’S SOUTHERN EXPOSURE
July 23, 2018 INTRODUCING DII-on-Demand™ – A TOOL FOR MEASURING AND REDUCING CHRONIC INFLAMMATION
October, 2016 INTRODUCING THE DIETARY INFLAMMATORY INDEX™ – AN ESSENTIAL TOOL FOR MONITORING YOUR HEALTH
February 18, 2015 NIH Awards CHI, with a $1.5 Million grant to adapt the Dietary Inflammatory Index™, into clinical applications to help patients reduce chronic inflammation
PUBLICATIONS
NEWS ARTICLES
May 5, 2025: The Chronic Line On… Anti-Inflammatory Diets
December 16, 2024: 4 ways to reduce inflammation for better health
August 28, 2024: Understanding The Dietary Inflammatory Index and Its Uses
November 30, 2023: The 6 best foods to fight and prevent inflammation, according to a researcher
March 08, 2019: SEPC: Exploring food as medicineMay 20, 2021: The Link between Diet, Inflammation, and Disease
March 08, 2019: SEPC: Exploring food as medicine
January 7, 2019: What is Your Dietary Inflammation Index Score?
December 19, 2018: Eating fast food raises depression risk, study shows
December 19, 2018: Junk Food Increases the Risk of Depression: Study
December 19, 2018: Junk food ups depression risk: Study
December 19, 2018: Junk food ups depression risk: Study
October 11, 2018: Your Anti-Inflammatory Diet Is Probably Just the Opposite
August 31, 2018: Research Emphasizes Association Between Inflammation, Diet, and Depression
August 16, 2018: Pro-inflammatory food might increase depression in teen girls
June 6, 2018: Can the Dietary Inflammatory Index predict cancer risk?
May 31, 2018: Adequate Antioxidant Supplements for Anti-Aging
January 26, 2017: Anti-inflammatory diet could reduce risk of bone loss in women
Nov 11, 2016 : Inflammationer bakom psykiska besvär
December 3, 2015: Inflammatory Diet Raises Risk of Cardiovascular Events
November 25, 2015: Anti-inflamatory diet slows cellular aging
February 21, 2015: Exploring shift worker health
January 24, 2015: Dietary Inflammatory Index™ (DII™)
December 9, 2014: Plant-Based Diet Improves Inflammation
November 12, 2014: Are you eating pro- or anti- inflammatory foods?
October 31, 2014: Pro-Inflammatory Diet Linked to Colorectal Cancer, Poor Metabolic Health
April 8, 2014: Poor diets ‘contributing to increased asthma prevalence’
April 8, 2014: Junk food can make asthma inhalers ‘useless’
April 8, 2014: Processed food linked to increase in asthma
February 24, 2014: Shift Workers’ Food Problem
February 20, 2014: Work night shifts? Adopt an anti-inflammatory diet
February 16, 2014: Shiftworkers likelier to have diets that promote chronic inflammation
February 10, 2014: Shiftworkers have more ‘pro-inflammatory’ diets
PRESENTATIONS
Drs. Nitin Shivappa and James Hébert explained the development and current applications of the Dietary Inflammatory Index™ at the International Agency for Research on Cancer’s 50th Anniversary Conference in Lyon, France on June 9, 2015
Infographic explaining the DII (Larger file-please allow time to download)
