You can get plenty of information from the labels on your favorite foods. You can find out the calories, protein, fat, sugar, fiber, and sodium. But really, how much is it telling you about your overall health? Are your favorite healthy foods that good for you? That’s the question that a group of researchers tried to answer late last year. They sought out to identify how different foods and lifestyles influence inflammation, and how to potentially construct a diet to optimize inflammatory levels in the body. Inflammation is a major contributor and risk factor for a host of chronic illnesses. It is a marker of high blood sugar, type-2 diabetes, heart disease, and more. Chronic inflammation can also boost the risk for other very serious illnesses. So, much like there is a glycemic index to assess how sugars in food influence blood sugar levels, the researchers set out to identify …