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?

Arthritis is the easiest disease to cure - but it's up to you to be change your diet. Are you willing to let go of your pain and your old eating habits? Will you swap stiff swollen joints for healthy food?

If 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 reverse this 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 (capsicum) and aubergines (eggplant). 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.Tea and coffee contain caffeine. Your liver has the job of dealing with toxins like caffeine and alcohol. The more of these it has to cope with the less it can deal with other toxins. Alcohol and caffeine are also diurectics, which means they cause you to lose water. Water is essential for lubricating and cushioning your joints.
• Citrus fruits.Many people find that these make their arthritis symptoms worse, though this may be due to the large number of chemicals used on them. Also, they’re usually picked before they’re properly ripe, when they are more acidic. Fresh, organic citrus fruits, in season are probably fine occasionally. They’re a good source of vitamin C.
• Dairy products.Including milk, cheese, yogurt, butter, etc from any species – cow, sheep, goat, etc. Some people find that it’s only cow’s milk that affects them, but for others it’s any milk. Milk protein, like any animal protein, is very acidifying. Butter may be o.k. as it’s made from only the fat of the milk and doesn’t contain any protein. Watch out for hidden dairy products in processed foods – e.g. whey powder, dried milk.
• Excess salt. The table salt sold in supermarkets is almost pure Sodium Chloride, with a little Aluminium Oxide added to keep it free-flowing. It has been heated to over 1000 degrees Celsius. This is the salt that we’re warned against eating too much of. Actually, any amount of it is too much. In this form salt is a poison.

  Good quality sea salt and rock salt are a completely different matter. They contain more than 80 different minerals, many of them essential. Himalayan crystal rock salt is considered to be the best of all.

  But even the best salt should be used in moderation, and in balance with the amount of water you drink.

• Red meat, except in small amounts. Red meat is very acidifying. It’s tough on the digestion and often high in chemicals and hormones, unless it’s organic.
• 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. Find out more about healthy food , and how choosing the right food can improve your health.


If you want more help with treating your arthritis through diet, Margie Garrison not only gives an in-depth description of the arthritis diet, but also offers personal support and encouragement. Her story is well worth reading. This amazing woman had severe arthritis from the age of 11, but eventually, after many years of suffering found that diet was the answer.

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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