Fighting inflammation? Here are the foods you need to eat

HOUSTON (KTRK) -- If you eat turkey, salmon and strawberries thinking these foods are part of a healthy diet, we have some bad news for you -- these foods could be the reason you're not losing weight. They cause inflammation, which likely makes you gain weight.

Holistic and sports nutritionist and author of 'The Metabolism Plan' Lyn-Genet Recitas said a few tweaks to your diet can improve your health and the number on the scale.

Recitas has done extensive research on foods that cause inflammation.
"I've seen salmon cause two-pound weight gain or strawberries cause a pound of weight gain because of inflammation," explained Recitas.

"When you eat a food that doesn't work for your chemistry, what happens is a histamine response, and that causes short-term water weight gain. That histamine response raises your cortisol levels, and that's what makes the salmon stay on as actual weight right now," she continued.

In her book, Recitas says small tweaks in our food choices can make a huge difference in our health.

"A lot of the foods that I chose here are 85 percent reactive, which means over the age of 35, for 85 percent of the population, it's going to cause inflammation," explained Recitas.