Arthritis Diet and the Five Worst Things You Can Eat

What you eat is critical for your good health. A good arthritis diet is immeasurably important, and may totally cure your malady.

A bad diet can cause enormous health problems. So, if by getting arthritis, if it means you will change things in your life to healthier options, it was worth getting.

Who knows what you have avoided getting. But I will tell you that arthritis, an inflammation of the joints, is also linked to heart related problems. So get your diet sorted out, and you may be able to avert any heart related problems.

Lets look at some of the foods that shouldn't be in a good arthritis diet, but are probably in yours:

1. dairy is one of the worse things you can consume if you have any inflammation anywhere


2. meat, or any animal protein, in consumed in much too high quantities for good health - it makes your body pH too acidic


3. junk, fast and processed food are denatured and make your body pH too acid


4. cooking destroys many nutrients essential to a healthy immune system - raw (or living) foods are rich in enzymes and other nutrients


5. not all supplements are equal - the isolated and sythetic ones are difficult to absorb and may cause problems later - the best ones are superfoods, such as blue-green algae

It's unlikely that you will be able to change to a good arthritis diet all in one go. Be kind to yourself. Start it one step at a time. Work out an agreeable replacement, before you give a food up. For example I find rice milk an unacceptable replacement. But I find oat milk is great.

If you are a big meat eater, cut down slowly.

Bear in mind too, that medication blocks much of the essential nutrients from being absorbed. So it is making things worse. Cut back as much as you can, and include a whole food supplement.

And take omega 3 as a food, rather than a supplement. The one I like best is chia seeds, because it's a whole food. Other foods high in omega 3 are kiwi fruit and freshly ground flax seed.