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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!

Meet Dr. Hébert!

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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May 15, 2020 April 6, 2020 February 6, 2020
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. 

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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.

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Connecting Health Innovations has formalized its partnership with CBC3 Media Inc. to promote the Dietary Inflammatory Index® (DII®) as an educational and marketing tool for the food industry.

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March 28, 2019

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March 8, 2019

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. 
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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.

February 6, 2020 Industry Vets Join SPW Staff Ahead of ‘Where The Food Comes From’ Launch

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

  • The effects of the Multicultural Healthy Diet on cognitive decline & Alzheimer's disease risk: A randomized controlled trial in middle-aged adults

  • Sleep Duration, Dietary Inflammatory Potential, and Obesity in Relation to Colorectal Cancer Incidence in the Multiethnic Cohort

  • The eFEct of an Anti-Inflammatory Diet for Knee oSTeoarthritis (FEAST) Trial: Baseline Characteristics and Relationships With Dietary Inflammatory Index

  • Dietary inflammation and childhood adiposity: Analysis of individual participant data from six birth cohorts

  • Association of Serum Polyunsaturated Fatty Acids (PUFAs) and Children's Dietary Inflammatory Index (C-DII(TM)) with Recurrent Respiratory Infections in Children: A Cross-Sectional Study

  • Exploring the link between dietary inflammatory index and NAFLD through a structural equation modeling approach

  • Association between the dietary inflammatory index and the risk of hepatocellular carcinoma in a cirrhotic population

  • The Impact of the Dietary Inflammatory Index, Fasting Blood Glucose, and Smoking Status on the Incidence and Survival of Pancreatic Cancer: A Retrospective Case-Control Study and a Prospective Study

  • Interaction between Meal-timing and Dietary Inflammatory Potential: Association with Cardiometabolic Endpoints in a 3-month Prospective Analysis

  • The association between dietary inflammatory index with risk rheumatoid arthritis: A case-control study

  • Diet Quality, Dietary Inflammatory Potential, and Risk of Prostate Cancer Grade Reclassification

  • Climate Change, Racism, and Food Insecurity: Cyclical Impacts of Stressors Exacerbate Health Disparities

  • Association between the Dietary Inflammatory Index and Sleep Quality among Lebanese University Students

  • Dietary inflammatory index and inflammatory markers in Brazilian adolescents

  • Androgenic alopecia is associated with higher dietary inflammatory index and lower antioxidant index scores

NEWS ARTICLES

February 6, 2020: Industry Vets Join SPW Staff Ahead Of ‘Where The Food Comes From’ Launch

March 11, 2019: The case for food as medicine grows stronger

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 30, 2018: Fire alarm: Arnold School researchers quantify links between chronic inflammation and diet

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

January 4, 2017: Dietary Inflammatory Index and Prostate Cancer Risk

December 15, 2016: Penn State alumni study nutrition at NASA

December 12, 2016: 一張表必存!除了薑黃,這些家常食物抗發炎效果一流

November 19, 2016: Proper nutrition promotes good mental health, keeps you stress free

November 16, 2016: Anti-Inflammatory Diet May Reduce Risk of Heart Disease Mortality in Breast Cancer Survivors

Nov 11, 2016 : Inflammationer bakom psykiska besvär

April, 2016: Breastmilk from obese mothers has pro-inflammatory properties and decreased neuroprotective factors

December 3, 2015: Inflammatory Diet Raises Risk of Cardiovascular Events

November 25, 2015: Anti-inflamatory diet slows cellular aging

 November 18, 2015: Nutritional indicators (Dietary inflammatory index (DII)) in clinical nutrition research

November 2, 2015: Inflammation negatively impacts telomere length, but the dietary inflammatory index can help

October 9, 2015: An Australian study has found that a pro-inflammatory diet is associated with increased risk of cardiovascular events

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

Evolution of a Dietary Inflammatory Index: from an idea to an emerging, coherent picture of the role of inflammation in cancer

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)

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