Rheumatoid Arthritis
Comments (0) Vegan diet in physiological health promotion
Hanninen O, Rauma AL, Kaartinen K, Nenonen M.
Department of Physiology, University of Kuopio, Finland.
We have performed a number of studies including dietary interventions and cross-sectional studies on subjects consuming uncooked vegan food (raw food) and clarified the changes in several parameters related to health risk factors. This raw food diet consists of germinated seeds, cereals, sprouts, vegetables, fruits, berries and nuts. Some items are fermented and contain a lot of lactobacilli. The diet is rich in fiber. It has very little sodium, and it contains no cholesterol. Food items like berries and wheat grass juice are rich in antioxidants such as carotenoids and flavonoids. The subjects eating raw foods show increased levels of carotenoids and vitamins C and E and lowered cholesterol concentration in their sera. Urinary excretion of sodium is only a fraction of the omnivorous controls. Also urinary output of phenol and p-cresol is lowered as are several fecal enzyme levels which are considered harmful. The rheumatoid arthritis patients eating the raw food diet reported amelioration of their pain, swelling of joints and morning stiffness which all got worse after finishing the raw food diet. The composite indices of objective measures showed also improvement of the rheumatoid arthritis patients during the intervention. The fibromyalgic subjects eating raw foods lost weight compared to their omnivorous controls. The results on their joint stiffness and pain (visual analogue scale), on their quality of sleep, on health assessment questionnaire and on general health questionnaire all improved. It appears that the adoption of a vegan diet exemplified by a raw food diet leads to a lessening of several health risk factors to cardiovascular diseases and cancer. Rheumatoid patients subjectively benefited from the vegan diet which was also seen in serum parameters and fecal analyses.
Acta Physiol Hung 1999;86(3-4):171-180
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ARTHRITIS: THERE’S MORE YOU CAN DO THAN JUST LEARN TO LIVE WITH IT
By the time you are 88 years old, you have consumed 300 tons of food, air and water.
(R. Buckminster Fuller)
ARTHRITIS AND DIET
It is party-line medical doctrine that there is little or no connection between arthritis and nutrition. That belief belongs on the agenda of the next World-Is-Flat Society meeting. We truly are what we eat. We started from a union of two tiny half-cells. All that we are today, our trillions and trillions of cells, results from the molecules we’ve accumulated from breathing, drinking, and eating our food.
How can arthritis, or any other disease for that matter, be unrelated to diet? Naturopaths hold that the etiology of arthritis parallels a history of bad diet. You will rarely see an arthritic patient that is not a cooked-food-and-meat-eater.
Proof exists, and plenty of it. Francis M. Pottenger, M.D. did nutritional experiments on hundreds of cats over a period of two decades. He found that cats fed our typical cooked diet did in fact develop many degenerative diseases, including arthritis. What is especially interesting is that Dr. Pottenger found you could reverse the condition by feeding the animals only fresh, raw foods. (References are available from the Price-Pottenger Nutrition Foundation, La Mesa, CA 92041)
Read more: http://www.doctoryourself.com/arthritis_II.html
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“I have been 100% raw for five weeks since my arthritis diagnosis on May 21st. When I was diagnosed I had pretty much constant pain while sitting or moving. Now, during normal-daily activities I have about a few minutes, total, of intermittent pain in my – formerly! – arthritic joint. (That is precisely a 99.9946 % reduction.) I’ve started running, and maybe 2 or 3 times a week while running I get a little stiffness. But the intensity and frequency of the stiffness are both decreasing!
Read more:
http://rawglow.com/blog/2009/07/08/raw-food-arthritis-testimonial/
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Shirley from the UK tells why she became a 100% raw foodist. And how the raw vegan diet cured her daughter of severe arthritis.
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