You need to eat anti-inflammatory foods – by Dr. Harold Gunatillake   Inflammatory process in our bodies is a defensive mechanism against infections. How does it happen? As soon as an infection occurs due to some germs in any part of the body- the regional blood vessels promptly expand opening a pathway for the defensive cells and immune cells to get into the focus of infection. There are cells called macrophages that eat up the germs that are causing the inflammatory process. The whole system of this defence process is complicated, but the main fact is that such a system in our body is a great benefit for the elimination of any local inflammatory process. This mechanism can fail due to the overreaction of the immune system and start attacking healthy body tissues. There are certain foods that enhance the defensive mechanism to ward of infections and you should concentrate ...