Learning Which Food to Avoid With Arthritis is Likely to Resolve More Than Your Arthritis
January 19th, 2010 | Published in Women's Health
In looking for the food to avoid with arthritis, you may be well on the way to resolving it totally.
Not all arthritis is caused by diet, but diet plays a critical role in all your health problems.
The typical western diet is far from healthy. And that’s a healthy diet. So what’s unhealthy about it?
Let’s start with cooking. Cooking destroys enzymes and other essential nutrients in your diet. Probiotics are enzymes. Now many people find by simply adding a probiotic supplement to their diet, their health improves immeasurably?
At a dietary level, they can achieve the same by eating lots of fresh fruit and vegetables.
You have been lead to believe that you need dairy for your calcium requirements. Yet, your ability to digest and utilise dairy ceased when you were weaned. In many Asian countries, dairy is not a part of their diet. And in these countries, arthritis is minimal. Or absent altogether.
The best source of calcium which you can easily digest and utilise is green leafy vegetables such as spinach, silver beet, swiss chard, etc.
You have also been lead to believe that you need meat every day for your protein levels. But if you take a look at your teeth, then look at a cat’s teeth, you’ll see a big difference. Cats are true carnivores and must have meat. They can’t survive without it.
Do your teeth look anything like cat’s teeth? Dogs also have similar teeth to cats, and they can survive without meat. So they are omnivores, but at the carnivore end.
Your teeth are much more similar to horses teeth. Horses are true herbivores.
Herbivores also need to eat frequently, whereas a carnivore may only eat about twice a week, when you take into consideration the hunts that fail.
So you have evolved to need a much lower protein level than carryovers. And you can get all of that again, from green leafy vegetables. And from nuts and seeds.
So what is the food to avoid with arthritis? Cooked food, dairy, meat. You don’t need to cut meat out altogether, just cut it back. Either reduce your portions or have it once or twice a week.
The reason arthritis is so prevalent on a typical western diet is because meat needs calcium to digest. Most western people have too much meat and too little calcium. So their bones suffer.
By learning which food to avoid with arthritis, you’re likely to heal more than just arthritis.
It goes without saying, I hope, to avoid all junk, fast and processed food.
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Madeleine Innocent is a full time consultant homeopath and homeopathic coach.