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What is Dietary Inflammatory Index (DII)®?
Dietary Inflammatory Index (DII)® is the index used to measure how inflammatory foods are to an individual’s body and its organs. It is derived through a complex mathematical formula. Dietary Inflammation has been clinically studied and documented for more than 27+ years by our partner Dr. James R. Hebert, ScD a world renowned nutritional epidemiologist and Harvard alumni and Professor in the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics in the Arnold School of Public Health of the University of South Carolina, USA. He is the world’s expert on Dietary Inflammation and inventor of the world’s first and only Dietary Inflammatory Index (DII)® and Children’s Dietary Inflammatory Index (C-DII)™. He is also the founder of our partner company Connecting Health Innovations, Columbia, South Carolina, USA.
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What is dietary inflammation?
Dietary inflammation, while often not painful or even detectable, is ongoing and causes your organs to react in a negative manner leading to serious medical conditions.
How important is dietary inflammation?
There is an increased understanding of the relationship between inflammation and resultant health outcomes. This led to a deepening appreciation of the role of diet to modulate inflammation.
What does inflammation do to human body?
Inflammation is now known to provide a substrate for a wide variety of health-related mechanisms ranging from short-term immune response to environmental insults to chronic diseases outcomes including cancer, heart disease and Type II Diabetes Mellitus (T2DM) just to name a few.
What is the aim of sharing DII based recipes?
We guide our clients to support the adoption of an anti-inflammatory diet intake and realize improved health outcomes and further, reduce the risk of chronic diseases.
Are these DII based recipes medicinal or tastier?!
We have curated our recipes with careful research and validation to realize an anti-inflammatory score-all with minimal impact, where possible, on the core taste, colour, texture, integrity, and appeal.
What does DII®-Certified mean?

Being DII®-Certified means that the product has undergone rigorous testing to make sure it meets the guidelines of an anti-inflammatory diet.

Only products that contribute to an anti-inflammatory diet can be DII®-Certified! This means all products must have a DII® Score between -8 and 0.

The DII®-Certified Seal of Approval shows that the product is a healthy and an anti-inflammatory choice for you. This makes your choice of choosing a healthy diet or recipe easier!