The answer is YES. Painful osteoarthritis or any arthritic pain for that matter starts with chronic inflammation and swelling around the joint area. Studies have shown that adding certain foods to your diet will help reduce the swelling, which in turn offers some pain relief.
Diet is a choice and sometimes the pain may be a choice based upon what you are putting in your mouth.
Most of us seem to be seduced by food in one way or another we know it is not good for us but we still eat it. For example, in one hand you are holding your favorite sugar treat (ice-cream, cookie, etc.) which may cause you more chronic pain, and in the other you are holding a nice fresh spinach salad that you know will help reduce the pain.
You only get to choose one. You would think the choice would be obvious, but for some reason the ninja in us seems spring from nowhere, snatching the spinach bowl from your hand leaving you with the tasty sugar treat and the pain.
By choosing your food more wisely you may be able to reduce some of the pain, so tell the ninja in you to back off and take your pain with him, because you are the new boss in town and you make the decisions around hear.
Fruits, vegetables and fish are food groups that offer high-ranking anti-inflammatory benefits.
Fruits:
Mulberries
Raspberries
Rhubarb
Strawberries
Acerola (West Indian) cherries
Guavas
Kumquats
Lemons, limes
Vegetables:
Kale, collards, chard, turnip greens, etc.
Onions (also green onions and leeks)
Spinach
Sweet potatoes
Chilies
Garlic
Fish:
Salmon (wild Alaskan is best)
Sardines
Striped bass
Tuna, blue fin and white (canned)
Whitefish
Arctic char
Herring
Oysters
Rainbow trout
By adding some of the above foods to your diet it may make your pain a little more tolerable and your life a little happier.
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