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An arthritis diagnosis sounds like a sentence to a life, accompanied by pain, disability, and expensive medication and their side effects. <\/p>\nAn arthritis diagnosis sounds like a sentence to a life, accompanied by pain, disability, and expensive medication and their side effects. <\/p>\n
A new study by researchers from the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine published in the journal Frontiers – Nutrition<\/em> concludes that it doesn’t have to be this way.<\/p>\n The team performed a review of existing studies and found that a surprising (and controversial) diet could reverse arthritis without drugs.<\/p>\n Firstly, they found that plant-based diets were great at reducing inflammation, which is at the heart of arthritis.<\/p>\n From the majority of existing studies, they concluded that diets that contained a lot of meat and dairy were the most likely to cause inflammation. <\/p>\n C-reactive protein, one of the chief contributors to inflammation, was found to be much higher in people who consumed meat and dairy than in people who did not.<\/p>\n Secondly, with the exception of fish, olive oil, and avocado, excessive fat consumption worsens inflammation and arthritis symptoms. A lot of the fats in the typical Western diet come from meat, dairy, and eggs, proving why plant-based diets help.<\/p>\n Of course, this is not always true. If you turn vegan but load your diet with vegetable oils, your arthritis symptoms will remain.<\/p>\n Thirdly, people who consume plant-based diets lose more weight and maintain a healthier weight than those who eat animal-based foods. This reduces the weight they load on their joints, which prevents them from deteriorating as fast as those of overweight people.<\/p>\n But it is not necessarily true in all cases. A vegan diet filled with white bread and other refined grains will not result in weight loss.<\/p>\n Also, because of all the vegetables and whole grains, plant-based diets contain more fiber and other nutrients compared to the typical Western animal-based diet. This is great for cultivating a great variety of gut bacteria which, while sounding gross, is precisely what you want.<\/p>\n Finally, the studies revealed people who ate mostly plants suffered from a lot less pain than people who consumed animal-based products, which could have been due to the reduction in inflammation.<\/p>\n