With the Anti Inflammatory Diet You Can Beat Rheumatism and Arthritis.

By following an anti-inflammatory diet, many arthritis and rheumatism sufferers have found relief from their symptoms.

Changing to an anti inflammatory diet can even reverse the progress of the disease - whereas anti-inflammatory drugs often accelerate the damage, though they reduce your pain at the time.

Many people end up on permanent medication for the pain, perhaps with artificial joints. Do you want to go down that route? Or will you try the anti inflammatory diet and see what it can do for you? When you have arthritis, your body has become clogged up with acidic toxins. These accumulate particularly in your joints, but can affect other parts of the body. To ease the condition you need to avoid acidifying and toxic foods, and eat lots of foods rich in natural vitamins and alkalising minerals.

Some people find it also helps to eat a gluten free diet.

Foods to avoid on the anti inflammatory diet include:

· All foods of the nightshades family – tomatoes, potatoes, peppers and aubergines. These are related to deadly nightshade. Many people are healthier for avoiding these foods, and they are probably the most important ones to avoid on an anti inflammatory diet.

· Bread, and perhaps wheat in other forms as well (i.e. biscuits, pasta, etc). For a lot of people the gluten in wheat causes problems. Bread is the worst form of wheat for several reasons, not least the large amount of yeast used in modern baking.

. Tea, coffee and alcohol.

. Citrus fruits.

. Dairy products.

. Excess salt.

. Red meat, except in small amounts.

. Fried foods.

. Refined carbohydrates and sugar.

Watch out for hidden nightshades, wheat and dairy products in processed foods.

There are some foods that are particularly beneficial for arthritis sufferers. These should be included on the anti inflammatory diet.

· Most vegetables (except nightshades), particularly, carrots, celery and green, leafy vegetables.

· Parsley, watercress and sea vegetables are especially rich in minerals.

· Garlic and onions help to reduce yeast overgrowth, a common factor in rheumatic conditions.

· Brown rice – promotes regular bowel movements.

· Millet and quinoa – two grains that are alkalising rather than acidifying.

· Cod liver oil – contains vitamin D, which is necessary for absorption of calcium. Often considered as a natural arthritis medication.

· Sprouted beans and seeds such as alfalfa sprouts – these are high in digestive enzymes.

By following the anti inflammatory diet strictly, you should begin to feel improvement in your condition within days. After a few weeks you can relax the diet a bit. Don’t go back completely to your old diet - remember that it was your diet that caused your pain in the first place. Try to eat foods from the beneficial list every day, particularly plenty of green vegetables. The antiinflammatory diet is not necessarily a diet for life, but you can always go back to it whenever you feel the need.

She’s now 83 and completely free of arthritis, fit healthy and active – she doesn’t even have gray hair! For me, what’s most amazing about her is the way she brought up her children when she was almost crippled with arthritis. Because she could not do much, her kids learnt to do a lot for her and themselves, from picking up anything they dropped – she could not bend to pick things up from the floor – to doing much of the housework. Wish my children were like that! Read her story.

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