Diet and arthritis

[hoping2021]

Anyone have an recommendations for best books on diet and arthritis please.

[Fruitandnutcase]

What about this book

The Complete Anti-Inflammatory Diet for Beginners: A No-Stress Meal Plan with Easy Recipes to Heal the Immune System Paperback – 11 April 2017by Dorothy Calimeris

I don’t eat a special arthritis diet but I’ve been totally gluten free since about 2014, I don’t eat much in the way of grain based foods even GF grains. I eat carbs but I am careful about where my carbs come from, I get my carbs mainly from green leafy veg.

I avoid sugar because they don’t do my body any good and I don’t eat a lot of high sugar fruit. Tend to stick with berries, raw nuts and seeds.

I don’t eat junk food - I tend to cook from scratch and don’t eat processed food.

I drink a lot of water every day and I also have tea, regular tea, I tried green tea but drank too much and ended up with the shakes so just regular tea, sometimes decaf tea (but always decaf coffee) which is so weak it is pretty much just like water.

[bpeal1]

Not a book but a very useful article on the NRAS website. nras.org.uk/resource/diet/

There’s also some information on the versus arthritis website, however it’s slightly confusing because it includes advice for both oesteoarthritis and rheumatoid arthritis.

Some people find changing diet does help, others like me find it makes no difference at all.

[oldtimer2]

Over the years I have read lots of books and quite honestly not found them helpful. So much information is incorrect, out-of-date, or just biased.

I've recently been reading and listening to the Zoe programme and there are a couple of books written by Tim Spector The Diet Myth and Spoon Fed which put some of the dietary advice we receive into perspective. Most of the dietary advice we get seems to be wrong or biased by manufacturers!

After trying all sorts of things including an exclusion diet over several months in the early years, I now just stick to a more or less Mediterrean type diet with occasional excesses....Lots of a variety of fruit and vegetables and not a lot of any one thing.

[Mmrr in reply to oldtimer2]

I would recommend Tim Spector's books too. Not specifically aimed at RA, but excellent information about what we eat and the often false information given out about diet.

[rabbits65]

Margaret Hills books written for arthritis are very good

[CaptainJackSparrow]

I asked one my BFFs for this book for my birthday. Michael Symon is a chef who has had RA for probably over 30 years and wanted to do something besides medications with a ton of side effects. It’s an elimination diet concept where you do a reset for 10 days, and then gradually add one food group at a time to see what, if anything, is a trigger. It’s called “Fix It With Food”. I am working on trying it out. It has a lot of delicious recipes. I was given the spiral-bound edition; the regular one is cheaper but the spiral one is helpful in the kitchen. 😊

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