Re: Has anyone tried fasting for arthritis or researched food allergies causing it?

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Amy,

Arthritis pain can indeed be mitigated by certain foods and

aggravated by others. Here are two online references:

http://www.womentowomen.com/inflammation/naturalantiinflammatories.aspx

http://www.betterhealthusa.com/public/338.cfm

Sincerely, Harald

At 06:56 PM 11/9/2008, Evanesce@... wrote:

>My experience is that certain foods just make everything MUCH worse

>including RA. Granted, it seems likely that I have an extreme version

>of this, whereas most others may have this in shades of gray.

>

>Personally, I do not believe you need to fast. I think you can go a

>week using foods that I do to get back into a better 'state'. What it

>means is that certain foods are hard on the digestive tract & the body

>is not able to process them well. It's like a person with celiac.

>Therefore, one easy way I do this is to eat ONLY predigested rice

>protein (daily), fish, chicken, potato or rice, gluten-free

>bread/cereal, vegetables, fruit, almond or rice milk, bits of butter,

>oil, seasonings.

>

>I use vits & minerals. But also, I take a morning blend of free-form

>amino's that seem to help to improve brain function. These things work

>well to enhance the diet effect, and do not work at all if I do not do

>the diet. Also, I've been using r-alpha lipoic acid to help manage

>appetite & cravings. This also helps other nutrients to be better

>utilized in the mitochondria.

>

>Having said all this, I think RA results from a variety of conditions.

>Not only food. Other things such as hormonal imbalance, mineral

>imbalance are associated with myalgia. It's just that in my case, food

>is definitely a piece of how I feel.

>

>Amy

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