| Every person, young or old alike should have a healthy | | | | proven will help in ensuring that the body is replenished |
| diet. For arthritis patients, however, a healthy diet is also | | | | with the nutrients it needs. Studies made which focus |
| one way to decrease the frequency their arthritis | | | | on the relationship between one's diet and arthritis |
| attacks. Truly there is a connection between one's diet | | | | state that high cholesterol and high fat found in one's |
| and arthritis. The type of arthritis diet suitable for a | | | | diet contributes a lot to arthritis attacks. Thus, a diet |
| person with the disease is dependent on the type of | | | | plan for the disease should be designed in order to |
| arthritis or certain arthritis conditions being experienced | | | | prevent the pain and even better, eliminate the |
| by the individual. An example is a diet with low purine | | | | occurrence of arthritis |
| and alcoholic content results to a decrease in levels of | | | | In a proper arthritis diet, the foods to avoid are fast |
| blood uric acid thus lessening the likelihood of | | | | food meals and foods high in starch (e.g. potatoes). As |
| experiencing a gout attack. | | | | for red meat, it can be eaten but only in little amounts |
| Excess Body Weight and Arthritis | | | | and one should also watch out for meals with high |
| Excess body weight affects a person afflicted with | | | | saturated fat levels. On the other hand, in order to |
| arthritis negatively because it adds more strain on the | | | | relieve pain, patients have the freedom to choose |
| joints, and according to medical experts, those who | | | | having an arthritis diet that consists mainly of fruits that |
| are more or less overweight by 20% will have more | | | | are high in vitamin C like oranges, apples, strawberries, |
| arthritis attacks as compared to those who have the | | | | etc. Additional food that could help in the diet is oily fish |
| right body weight. Aside from that fact, it is important | | | | since it contains a lot of vitamin E, and one should not |
| to note that there are certain types of food that | | | | forget that grains such as brown rice and wheat are |
| function as allergens, hence acting as triggers to | | | | also beneficial to the patients. |
| arthritis and at the same time changes negatively the | | | | High fat Western diets should be avoided since they |
| way the immune system functions. | | | | trigger arthritis, meaning they should not be part of an |
| The bottom line when speaking of the arthritis diet is | | | | arthritis diet. Everyone who wants to be healthier |
| that one should keep in mind that eating nutritiously and | | | | should avoid that kind of diet. Instead, people should eat |
| taking in well-balanced meals are vital to the well-being | | | | nutritious foods and should try a low fat diet or |
| of an individual and that staying away from the so | | | | cholesterol lowering diets for weight maintenance to |
| called fad diets and avoiding diet claims that are not | | | | be long term. |